From 36853bff55ea034c5ba2ee8f541f75ac6cc7bcb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DarkSun Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 05:03:02 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E9=80=89=E9=A2=98[tech]:=2020210602=20Convert?= =?UTF-8?q?=20Images=20to=20ASCII=20Art=20in=20Linux=20Terminal=20With=20T?= =?UTF-8?q?his=20Nifty=20Little=20Tool?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit sources/tech/20210602 Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md --- ...ux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md | 115 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 115 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sources/tech/20210602 Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md diff --git a/sources/tech/20210602 Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md b/sources/tech/20210602 Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..143c898b6f --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/tech/20210602 Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool.md @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +[#]: subject: (Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool) +[#]: via: (https://itsfoss.com/ascii-image-converter/) +[#]: author: (Abhishek Prakash https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/) +[#]: collector: (lujun9972) +[#]: translator: ( ) +[#]: reviewer: ( ) +[#]: publisher: ( ) +[#]: url: ( ) + +Convert Images to ASCII Art in Linux Terminal With This Nifty Little Tool +====== + +Want to do some fun stuff in the Linux terminal? How about converting a regular image into an ASCII art? + +You know [what’s ASCII][1]? It’s a standard that assigns letters, numbers and other characters in the 256 slots available in the 8-bit code. The ASCII art is a graphics composed of the printable ASCII characters. Basically, it is composed of a bunch of letters, numbers and special characters. + +You might have seen people [displaying their distribution’s logo in ASCII format][2] like this: + +![][3] + +That’s cool, right? How about converting a normal picture into ASCII art? That’s what you are going to explore in this article. + +### Ascii Image Converter + +As the name suggests, [Ascii Image Converter][4] is a tool that converts an image into ASCII art. It is a command line based tool written in Go and it prints the ASCII version of the image supplied to it. + +You probably won’t recognize me, but that’s me in ASCII in the image below. That’s my 8-bit avatar. + +![][5] + +The tool supports input images in the following format: + + * JPEG/JPG + * PNG + * BMP + * WEBP + * TIFF/TIF + + + +Let’s see about installing and using it. + +### Installing Ascii Image Converter on Linux + +This nifty tool is also available on Windows but I am not going that way. Let’s stick to Linux in this tutorial. + +If you have [Snap enabled in your distribution][6], you can easily install its snap package using the following command: + +``` +sudo snap install ascii-image-converter +``` + +You may also download the Linux executable file from its release page and put the executable in the /usr/local/bin/ directory. This way, you’ll be able to run it like a regular Linux command. If you wonder why so, please learn about [Linux directory hierarchy][7]. + +### Using Ascii Image Converter + +The usage is simple. Once installed, you just have to provide the path of the image you want to convert. + +``` +ascii-image-converter path_to_image +``` + +You may also provide the URL of the image to convert an image into ASCII directly from the web. + +Here is my profile picture converted into ASCII. I have put my original photo for the reference. + +![][8] + +You may also have a colored ASCII conversion. + +``` +ascii-image-converter -C path_to_image +``` + +![][9] + +You may convert multiple images into ASCII by providing their paths. It will print the ASCII version one after another on the terminal display. + +There is an option to save the generated ASCII art but as a text file, not as an image. The command below will save the ASCII art by adding “-ascii-art.txt” to the image name in the directory path passed to the flag. + +``` +ascii-image-converter path_to_image -s . +``` + +There are a few more options available such as giving the output a specific dimension, use more ASCII characters, or use your own set of characters for printing the ASCII art. You can read about it on the [project’s repository][4]. + +### Like it? + +Do you like more ASCII stuff? How about [playing ASCII games on Linux][10]? Yes, you can totally do that. + +If you like experimenting in the terminal, you may like this tool. Though I wonder what could be a good practical use of an ASCII converted image. Any ideas? + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://itsfoss.com/ascii-image-converter/ + +作者：[Abhishek Prakash][a] +选题：[lujun9972][b] +译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/abhishek/ +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/ascii.htm +[2]: https://itsfoss.com/display-linux-logo-in-ascii/ +[3]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ubuntu-mate-focal-neofetch.png?resize=800%2C543&ssl=1 +[4]: https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter +[5]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-prakash-in-ascii.png?resize=800%2C445&ssl=1 +[6]: https://itsfoss.com/enable-snap-support-linux-mint/ +[7]: https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-directory-structure/ +[8]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-prakash-ascii-converted.png?resize=800%2C437&ssl=1 +[9]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/abhishek-colored-ascii.png?resize=800%2C429&ssl=1 +[10]: https://itsfoss.com/best-ascii-games/