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Create Ascii art with Python

Hello all, in today's quick tutorial I will show you a small Python script that converts image files into beautiful ASCII art.

This is our test image:

enter image description here
Let's jump to the code:

First we need to import our dependencies:



import sys
from PIL import Image
from termcolor import colored
import colorama


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First we need to read our image:



colorama.init()
try:
    image_path = sys.argv[1].strip('-')
except:
    image_path = input('test1.jpg')


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then we will be converting it into grayscale



class AsciiArt:
    def __init__(self, img_path):
        self.path = image_path
        self.img = Image.open(self.path)

    def image(self):


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after that, we resize the image:



        width, height = self.img.size
        aspect_ratio = height/width
        new_width = 120
        new_height = aspect_ratio * new_width * 0.55
        img = self.img.resize((new_width, int(new_height)))


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new size of image, and we convert image to greyscale format



        img = img.convert('L')
        pixels = img.getdata()


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replace each pixel with a character from array



        chars = ["B", "S", "#", "&", "@", "$", "%", "*", "!", ":", "."]
        new_pixels = [chars[pixel//25] for pixel in pixels]
        new_pixels = ''.join(new_pixels)


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split string of chars into multiple strings of length equal to new width and create a list



        new_pixels_count = len(new_pixels)
        ascii_image = [new_pixels[index:index + new_width]
                  for index in range(0, new_pixels_count, new_width)]
        ascii_image = "\n".join(ascii_image)
        print(ascii_image)


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write to a text file.



      file = "ascii_image.txt"
      with open(file, "w") as f:
            f.write(ascii_image)
            print(colored(f"saved art image to file as {file}", "yellow"))


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Last step:



if __name__ == "__main__":
    AsciiArt(image_path).image()


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This is our final result -

enter image description here

Thank you all.

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Mahdi Qiamast

good job

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JGVfh

Muito bom! Obrigado!
Gostaria de ajustar para converter ASCII para WhatsApp.