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║ 🎥 ASCII CAMERA 📹 ║
║ Real-time Retro Video Art ║
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Transform your webcam feed into retro ASCII art in real-time! ASCII Camera brings back the nostalgic charm of text-based graphics while showcasing your creativity in the terminal.
🎥 Real-time conversion: Live webcam feed to ASCII art
🌈 Colorful output: Support for colored ASCII art with ANSI escape codes
⚡ High performance: Optimized for smooth real-time rendering
🎛️ Customizable: Multiple ASCII character sets and color schemes
📏 Adaptive resolution: Automatically adjusts to your terminal size
🔧 Easy to use: Simple command-line interface
pip install ascii-camera
git clone https://github.com/masashimorita/ascii_camera.git
cd ascii_camera
pip install -e .
ascii-camera
# High detail ASCII characters
ascii-camera --charset detailed
# Colored output
ascii-camera --color
# Custom resolution
ascii-camera --width 80 --height 24
# Different FPS
ascii-camera --fps 15
# Retro green terminal theme
ascii-camera --color --theme matrix
--width, -w
: Terminal width (default: auto-detect)--height, -h
: Terminal height (default: auto-detect)--fps
: Frames per second (default: 12)--charset
: ASCII character set (simple/detailed/block)--color
: Enable colored output--theme
: Color theme (matrix/amber/cyan/rainbow)--camera
: Camera device index (default: 0)--help
: Show help message .:-=+*#%@
(10 levels) .,'~!;<>+*xvXGM#8@
(16 levels) ░▒▓█
(4 levels, bold look)# Try different camera indices
ascii-camera --camera 1
ascii-camera --camera 2
# Lower FPS for better performance
ascii-camera --fps 8
# Smaller resolution
ascii-camera --width 60 --height 20
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.
MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.
Inspired by classic ASCII art and retro terminal aesthetics. Perfect for developers who love the intersection of modern technology and nostalgic computing.
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Real-time webcam to ASCII art converter for terminal
We found that ascii-camera demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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