Artascii

Generate ASCII art from images.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'artascii'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install artascii

Usage

require "artascii"

Specify the path to your image
path = "daisy.jpg"

# Initialize the image matrix
image_mx = Artascii::Image.new(path)

# Can print image dimensions
puts "Image Size: #{image_mx.height} x #{image_mx.width}"

# Construct Pixel Matrix
pixels = image_mx.get_pixels

# Construct Brightness Matrix
# Currently uses Average calculation method
bright_pixels = image_mx.get_brightness_mx(pixels)

# Finalize the ascii image by mapping brightness to ascii chars
mx = image_mx.get_ascii_mx(bright_pixels)

# Print the matrix to a file of your choosing to view
image_mx.print_to_file(mx, "matrix.txt")

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/lovepreetkaul/artascii. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the Asciigen project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.