ascii-art.py

A simple fun .py script to convert .jpeg/.png images into ASCII embedded art as a .txt file, using Python's pywhatkit library.

Fetching the repo

• Download the .zip from here
• Unzip/extract the directory
• Open the extracted directory in VsCode or any other IDE of your choice.

How to execute

• Head to the ./src/ dir and put your desired image (.jpeg/.png) that you wanna generate ASCII art of
• Make sure the directory is empty before adding your own image, in case not, empty the dir
• Open the app.py file and execute it on the IDE terminal.
• Your desired ASCII art of the source image will be generated in the ./art/ dir

Requirements

• Make sure you have pywhatkit Python Library installed, if not, then (in your terminal) do
• pip install pywhatkit
• Make sure ./src/ directory is empty before you execute app.py

Misc.

• A source image and it's generated ASCII art has already been provided in the ./src/ & ./art/ dir respectively

Further readings

• ASCII Art | Wikipedia
• pywhatkit | pypi.org
• pywhatkit | GitHub Wiki Documentation