ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Really cool article. Except this bit:

  The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

  Fucking why? Could have saved time and energy with traditional search. Leave the slop out, please.

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  • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not to mention that real high quality astrophotography by NASA and ESA is more often than not under free use licenses. Literally the last case where it’s necessary to generate something.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly, makes no sense to me

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  • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They needed to make sure it’s wrong

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• Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  𓀥 | 𓁆 𓀕

  𓁆 𓀟 | 𓀣 𓁀

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hate this, +1

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  • 9bananas@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    .:|:;

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  • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What? My mother was a saint!

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• Alb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This guy built an image-to-ASCII renderer.

  This is so impressive!!!

  Mesmerizing…

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I made one myself many years ago for DOS, but mine renders in 512 pseudo halftone colors from a base palette of 16 colors. Results look pretty nice for whatever it’s worth, but yeah mine doesn’t focus on their efforts to get more crisp edges.

    Still neat though, food for my thoughts even, should I ever revisit my old project.

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    • Alb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes you should, this would be awesome with a special focus on the crisp edges!

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    • kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Would love to see your implementation. Have you considered making it public?

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    🤔

    Image

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Image

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    These are pixels

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    • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re a pixel, man.

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• HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quality article - thanks for sharing!

  I used to make (very bad) ASCII art as a hobby during my PhD (it’s good for relaxing), and a lot of the “smoothing” I learned but I think the method for good contrast would have really helped back then!

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• Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I really love when people share this kind of articles, they are so entertainment and you learn a lot.

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• Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I remember back in the day getting my mind blown by the BB demo on a live Linux CD (Knoppix?)

  I only know the library for doing this stuff is libcaca just because it’s libpoop in spanish

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• FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wow that was a much deeper dive than I expected, very interesting!

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• 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The link gives me Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

  Anyway here’s hasciicam.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nice, less for video and more for images, but there’s also

    github.com/subham008/ascim

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Nice, but hasciicam is for video.

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  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    :) Do you have WebGL disabled? It failed to open for me in LibreWolf, too. A less restrictive web browser should work.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Do you have WebGL disabled? It failed to open for me in LibreWolf, too.

      Yes. Yes.

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