Artem is a command-line image converter written in Rust. It transforms photographs and illustrations into ASCII artwork, using characters of different visual densities to represent the original image.
The application supports a variety of common image formats and can produce coloured artwork in terminals with suitable display capabilities. It falls back to a more limited ANSI colour representation when truecolour output is unavailable.
Artem provides several controls for adjusting the conversion process. Users can modify the output dimensions, supply their own character sets and experiment with outline-based rendering to emphasise the boundaries of objects.
The program accepts local files and remote image URLs. Generated artwork can be displayed in the terminal or exported for use in documents and other applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Converts JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP and other image formats into ASCII art.
- Supports truecolour and ANSI colour rendering.
- Uses predefined character sets or custom characters.
- Controls the size of generated artwork.
- Centres output horizontally or vertically.
- Applies outline detection to emphasise image boundaries.
- Provides hysteresis controls for refining outlines.
- Accepts multiple local images and remote URLs.
- Exports plain-text, HTML and coloured ANSI artwork.
- Offers a Rust library interface for image conversion.
Website: github.com/FineFindus/artem
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Developer: FineFindus
License: Mozilla Public License v2.0
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