An ASCII art generator
Have you ever wondered how these pictures, composed by only characters are made? Ascgen dotNET is a software that can help with the task. Basically it works as a converter from a real image and then this image is converted to characters. Very easy and intuitive to use in just a few steps. It works best if you have a relatively high contrast image with distinct shapes, so it is easily recognizable.
The program allows you to select a whole or part of an image, tune the brightness and contrast of the input image as well as fine tune the output (ASCII) image. For the output generation it allows brightness/contrast changes, levels cropping and midpoint selection, dithering level. It offers real time view of the changes, so you see what the output is.
It is portable and only requires you to have the .NET 2.0 framework installed (available via windows update for XP and below and Vista comes with it…). Very interesting and fun to play with…
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