Hello all, in today's quick tutorial I will show you a small Python script that converts image files into beautiful ASCII art.
This is our test image:
Let's jump to the code:
First we need to import our dependencies:
import sys
from PIL import Image
from termcolor import colored
import colorama
First we need to read our image:
colorama.init()
try:
image_path = sys.argv[1].strip('-')
except:
image_path = input('test1.jpg')
then we will be converting it into grayscale
class AsciiArt:
def __init__(self, img_path):
self.path = image_path
self.img = Image.open(self.path)
def image(self):
after that, we resize the image:
width, height = self.img.size
aspect_ratio = height/width
new_width = 120
new_height = aspect_ratio * new_width * 0.55
img = self.img.resize((new_width, int(new_height)))
new size of image, and we convert image to greyscale format
img = img.convert('L')
pixels = img.getdata()
replace each pixel with a character from array
chars = ["B", "S", "#", "&", "@", "$", "%", "*", "!", ":", "."]
new_pixels = [chars[pixel//25] for pixel in pixels]
new_pixels = ''.join(new_pixels)
split string of chars into multiple strings of length equal to new width and create a list
new_pixels_count = len(new_pixels)
ascii_image = [new_pixels[index:index + new_width]
for index in range(0, new_pixels_count, new_width)]
ascii_image = "\n".join(ascii_image)
print(ascii_image)
write to a text file.
file = "ascii_image.txt"
with open(file, "w") as f:
f.write(ascii_image)
print(colored(f"saved art image to file as {file}", "yellow"))
Last step:
if __name__ == "__main__":
AsciiArt(image_path).image()
This is our final result -
Thank you all.
Top comments (2)
good job
Muito bom! Obrigado!
Gostaria de ajustar para converter ASCII para WhatsApp.