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(This. Is snowI have twice now written fairly involved comments telling you about and linking to a tool I made that runs in the browser (completely locally) and outputs to HTML and CSS (which in my case is technically using the ASCII character set so I think we’re in the same ballpark) a full-color text representation of the image you choose.

Twice now I have inadvertently navigated off of the comment page while trying to live text to a part of my phone’s screen that isn’t smashed and can actually display. So this is the third attempt to share this with you, let’s hope it elevates is the charm.

The page I am about to link to explains and demonstrates what IMHO looks much better than the output of similar tools, even when running the plain old black text on white background version of the tool. Though the demo picture

Since you are reading this article and at least some of the comments, I hope you will check it out and enjoy using it. The somewhat arbitrarily chosen

https://www.killsignal.net/img2txt/ascii-art.html

parent ycombiredd 3 years ago

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