nikhilanayak / ASCIICam

📷 📜 ASCIICam - Display Your Camera In Your Terminal Using Python

ASCIICam - Display Your Camera In Your Terminal Using Python

ASCIICam uses OpenCV and curses to display pixels from your camera in your terminal using ASCII text.

Running

To run (python3):

• Clone this repo (Download zip or using git CLI)
• Run: pip install -r requirements.txt to install the required packages
• Run: python main.py (or python3 on some systems)

Options

To find the help menu, run python main.py --help

• --width x (int) - sets the width of the output screen to x chars
• --height y (int) - sets the height of the output screen to y chars
• --usecolor b (bool) - if enabled, uses grayscale to create a "heatmap" with terminal colors. Otherwise, displays in grayscale
• --showfps b (bool) - if disabled, hides FPS from top left of screen. Otherwise, shows FPS

TODO

• Multithreading. On my computer, the processing, streaming, etc. runs at ~30 fps. Some optimization is possible but multithreading (or numpy vectorization) will cause significant improvements