I wrote a program that turns the feed it receives from your webcam in ASCII art. It’s open source: you can find the code on Github.
I wrote a program that turns the feed it receives from your webcam in ASCII art. It’s open source: you can find the code on Github.
I assume from that screenshot that there isn’t color support, but if you’re on Linux, you can do something similar locally with color support:
At least on my Debian Trixie system, it looks like they aren’t building
mpv
with aalib support anymore, an older monochrome image-to-text library, just libcaca, but I know that in the pastmpv
andmplayer
have supported that as well.This will, among other things, permit viewing video on a plain text console.