Get ASCII’d
I’m sure you’ve ran into ASCII art before and never knew what it was called. Remember the last time someone messaged you and typed a colon and a right parenthesis. “:)” Well that’s an example of ASCII art. Basically ASCII art is artwork created with text characters (letters, numbers and symbols). Since the age of typewriters people have been “drawing” with ASCII characters!
What got me thinking about ASCII artwork today, was a neat PHP script called ASCIIArtist. The script allows you to convert bitmap images (jpg,png,gif) to ASCII characters. The script was written by Sebastian Röbke (Boosty) of Meerbeck Germary.
The script is very simple to use. Just visit Sebastian’s site and input the URL of the picture you’re wanting to convert to text. Then change the settings as you like and press “Render”. Then you’ll see a new window pop up with the ASCII artwork version of your image!
You can check the results of our conversion of one of our wedding photos here. Don’t forget to check out Sebastian’s site and get ASCII’d!
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