This class can generate a text that looks like a given image. It traverses the pixels of a given image and converts the color values of each region to a character text, so when you look at the sequence of converted characters it looks like the original image. The result text can optionally be output

1.0.1 2018-03-12 07:34 UTC

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README

Introduction

This class can generate a text that looks like a given image.

It traverses the pixels of a given image and converts the color values of each region to a character text, so when you look at the sequence of converted characters it looks like the original image.

The result text can optionally be outputted formatted as HTML and be displayed in color.

Sample output

Original image

Original

ASCII art after image crop

Result

Code example

<?php

use Tigra\AsciiArt\Generator;

require_once('generator.php');
$x = new Generator('example.jpg');
$color = $x->getBackgroundColor()->getHexValue();
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>ASCII art demo</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#<?php echo $color; ?>">
<?php
$x->setFontSize(6);
$x->show(range("a", "z"), 0.25, true, true);
?>
</body>
</html>