Real-Time ASCII Art Face Rendering

What it does

Transform an input image/frame (human faces included) into printable ASCII characters using a single decision tree.

Transform any image (human faces included) into printable ASCII characters using Machine Learning.

N. Markus, M. Fratarcangeli, I. S. Pandzic and J. Ahlberg, "Fast Rendering of Image Mosaics and ASCII Art", Computer Graphics Forum, 2015, < dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12597 > Rendering is explicitly set to 30 frames per second plus the poor performance of the Javascript memory allocator so expect small lag depending on your CPU/Browser configuration. ASCII art is a related (and older) graphic design technique for producing images from printable characters. Divide the input image into rectangular grid of equal size. The grid size correspond to the height and width of a single tile (i.e. font glyph) obtained form the codebook used during the training phase. For each cell, a font glyph is…from art.pixlab.io

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