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How to Turn Yourself into ASCII Art

27 Responses (Add) | Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 8:33pm

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Don’t adjust your monitor. That really is me in this video, and I look this way on purpose. You, too, can stream yourself live using ASCII characters… if you have OS X. ASCII Projektor is a free program that runs on OS X. ASCII Projektor presents films by drawing them with characters.

The application accepts films from the computer’s camera as well as from QuickTime files. You can set up which characters and fonts are used to present the film. To spice things up a little, you can draw the converted version of the film on top of a distorted version of the original image.

There are several different nifty things you can do to change how your image/video looks. You can adjust the color, saturation, source or texture string, font, contrast, and even the number of lines. Playing around with this is much more fun than any video game… isn’t it?

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October 29th, 2007
at 4:14pm

is me in this video, and I look this way on purpose. You, too, can stream yourself live using ASCII characters… if you have OS X. ASCII Projektor is a free program that runs on OS X. ASCII Projektor presents films by drawing them with characters.”Full Show Notes HereSubscribe Website RSS | iTunes http://live.pirillo.com [IMG]

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October 28th, 2007
at 11:56pm

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chadt4

October 27th, 2007
at 1:38pm

Wow, thats cool!

KillerClam73

October 27th, 2007
at 1:54pm

awesome

KusuriRX

October 27th, 2007
at 1:55pm

but as always it was available on Linux first :)

esetnod32

October 27th, 2007
at 2:04pm

wow!

willteddy09

October 27th, 2007
at 6:10pm

looks like your braggin…..very unattractive!!

chadt4

October 27th, 2007
at 8:38pm

Wow, thats cool!

KillerClam73

October 27th, 2007
at 8:54pm

awesome

KusuriRX

October 27th, 2007
at 8:55pm

but as always it was available on Linux first :)

esetnod32

October 27th, 2007
at 9:04pm

wow!

willteddy09

October 28th, 2007
at 1:10am

looks like your braggin…..very unattractive!!

drew olanoff

October 28th, 2007
at 6:20am

dude. this is awesome.

u235

October 28th, 2007
at 8:43am

VLC has a similar effect that can be found under the video output module settings; Settings -> Video -> Output modules -> Video output module:Color ASCII art video output. Make sure “Advanced options” is enabled in the bottom right corner of the settings dialog.