Helium

Helium is a toy project that converts photos and videos to ASCII art and displays them on the terminal

Build instructions

The project requires opencv and opencv devel to be present

• cmake -S . -B <build_dir>
• cmake --build <build_dir>

Run

For images

<build_dir>/helium --img <path_to_img>

For videos

• For colored video: <build_dr>/helium --vid <path_to_vid>
• For normal ascii video: <build_dir>/helium --vid <path_to_vid> [--color]

To-do :

• Add colors
• Add multi-threading for faster processing

Future scope :

• Add ability to convert the audio to 8-bit