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Create Ascii art with Python

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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:

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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
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First we need to read our image:

 colorama.init() try: image_path = sys.argv[1].strip('-') except: image_path = input('test1.jpg')
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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):
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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)))
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new size of image, and we convert image to greyscale format

 img = img.convert('L') pixels = img.getdata()
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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)
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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)
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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"))
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Last step:

 if __name__ == "__main__": AsciiArt(image_path).image()
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This is our final result -

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Thank you all.

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Mahdi Qiamast •

good job

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JGVfh •

Muito bom! Obrigado!
Gostaria de ajustar para converter ASCII para WhatsApp.