ASCII art

After talking to a friend who suggested I write a text based adventure game I decided could use a way to generate graphics that could be displayed as text. To achieve this I used the HTML canvas to analyse images and compared the distribution of colours with various characters, providing graphical, textual, and HTML outputs.

The tool allows the user to choose various character sets for processing the images, including particles for images related to particle physics. The user can also choose which display modes to use, including "colour", "black and white", "red, green, and blue", "pixelate", and "Matrix". There are two rules for determining which characters to use, which are "parsimony", and "random". Parsimony chooses a single character of a single colour that best matches the local pixels. To find out more, read the blog posts or visit the GitHub page.