nedkamburov / Asciimator

Turn a video into frames and txt files from each frame and play it in the terminal

ASCIImator

Turn a video into frames then each frame to ASCII txt file.

Dependecies: OpenCV, numpy, PIL

How to use

Install dependancies

pip install opencv-python numpy pillow

Distill video frames from --movie nameOfMovie.mp4. Optionally you can specify with--cols how many columns to generate the ASCII. Default is 80.

python genAsciiFromMovie.py --movie nameOfMovie.mp4

Play the ASCII animation with txt files from a folder. The default is 'data'

python playAscii.py --folder data

genAsciiFromMovie.py

This script generates a folder with frames and txt files from these frames. It can be used with anything that OpenCV supports. It has been tested with .gif, .mp4, .avi.

The --movie argument selects which file you want to transform.

The --cols argument selects how many columns to generate the ascii text files in.

playAscii.py

This script 'plays' what you have already distilled from your movie.

The --folder argument specifies from which folder to play the animation