Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.
By default it tries to use truecolor, if the terminal does not support truecolor, it falls back to 16 Color ANSI. When the ascii image is written to a file, the image will not use colors.
While it’s primary usage is through the command line, it also provides a rust crate.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports a wide variety of image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WEBP.
- Change the characters that are used to display the image.
- Change the size of the output image (width and height)
- Change the ratio between height and width.
- Flip the image along the X or Y axis.
- Centre the image along the X or Y acxis.
- Use an output file.
- Invert the characters used for the image which can be useful if the image has a dark background.
- Set the background of the ascii as the colour.
- Add a decorative border surrounding the ascii image.
- Do not use colour.
- Only create an outline of the image with the option to use the hysteresis method.
Website: github.com/FineFindus/artem
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Developer: FineFindus
License: Mozilla Public License 2.0
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