nichoth / ascii

ascii art

ascii

Ascii art, animated.

See animation docs

install dependencies

• install ImageMagick -- brew install imagemagick
• install ruby -- brew install ruby
• add ruby to the path -- echo 'export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/ruby/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
• install image2ascii: gem install image2ascii

use image2ascii

• clone the repo https://github.com/michaelkofron/image2ascii/tree/main/MakingWebAnimations#turning-gifs-into-image2ascii-web-animations
• in the animation dir (/Users/nick/code/image2ascii/MakingWebAnimations), install ruby dependencies -- bundle install

Now you can generate the ascii

ruby ./run.rb

This will create a file steps.json.

use this project

This will use a local file, steps.json as the source for the ascii animation. This file was generated as above, with the ruby ./run.rb command, then it was copied into this folder.

npm start