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		arachnophobe on Feb 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ascii art – dead or alive? I've been messing around with converting videos to ASCII for a side project - it's been a fun learning experience. Obviously I don't think ASCII art's going any where... https://youtu.be/oRdrMM20keI

m_t on Feb 19, 2018 [–]

Do you know about libcaca? http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

arachnophobe on Feb 19, 2018 | [–]

I didn't - I'd started off converting the videos to 8-bit colouring and in the process was experimenting with pixelisation and went off on a fairly extreme bit of a tangent.

https://youtu.be/MZ1fZWa2I8w

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