A simple python script to turn images into ASCII art.
$ python3 image-to-ascii.py <image_file> <max_height> <character_width_to_height_ratio>image_file: An arbitrary image file, ideally of .jpg or .png format.
max_height: The desired height of the ASCII art, expressed in characters.
character_width_to_height_ratio: The ratio of width/height of the characters that will compose the ASCII art. The font used should be a monospace (fixed-width) font. Usually a value of 2 is fine.
$ python3 image-to-ascii.py monalisa.jpg 60 2.5This will output a file named monalisa.txt containing ASCII art 60 characters tall. It was previously determined that the monospace font used to display the ASCII art on github allowed approximately two and a half times as much characters in width as it did in height, hence the ratio of 2.5
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