ascii-art
Named as such, this package is a command-line ASCII art generator written in Python. There is a variety of parameters which are detailed below.
Installation
With Python installed, install the package from PyPI with the following command:
python -m pip install ascii-art-cli
This package is not to be confused with ascii_art or other various ASCII art packages.
Usage
This is a command-line program, and can be executed as follows:
ascii-art [-h] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--chars CHARS] [--font FONT] [--invert] [--normalize] input
Positional arguments:
input Path to image from which ASCII art will be generated
Optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--width WIDTH Character width of ASCII art
--height HEIGHT Character height of ASCII art
--chars CHARS String containing characters to be seen in ASCII art
--font FONT Font for calculating the character weights
--invert Whether the ASCII output color is inverted
--normalize Whether the weights of the provided ASCII characters are normalized
Example:
ascii-art examples/images/einstein.jpg --width 100 --height 50 --font "Courier" --invert --normalize
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By default, the command will output the generated ASCII art to the console. If instead you would like to output to a file, feel free to use the redirection > operator.
