Image-to-ascii in Rust

Just a simple project that converts input from an image format into a .txt with a possibility of generating an html preview.

Motivation

I'm learning Rust and thought this would be an easy enough project to do and learn.

Installation

If you have cargo dependencies should be installed automatically by running

$ cargo run

Usage

The 'ita' cmd utility accepts the following arguments.

-i|-image      [image path]   Input image
-o|-output     [file name]    Output file name
-r|-resolution [integer]      Resolution (reverse linear scale, it's the divider of the original image resolution, the bigger the number the smaller the ascii output)
-p|-preview                   Flag that is used to generate an HTML preview (the name of the file will be the same as the input image file with an html extension)

Example

$ cargo run -- -i image.png -o image.txt -r 5 -p  

The given example analyzes the image.png file and outputs the ascii art to image.txt. It will resize the original image to a fifth of it's original size and it will generate an HTML preview.

Tests

I'd like to write basic tests soon just for practice

Contributors

Nenad Lukic - lnenad

License

WTFPL