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.

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Now how can i direct this into a Teams or Zoom call. Make it Matrix style and that’ll be even more fun

  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As others have mentioned, the line width makes it not work so well on mobile, even when putting it into landscape mode.

    On desktop though it works. Until I leaned forwards and the undefineds start flying outwards from me.

    Very neat project though!!

    • kaamkiya@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Correct, it may not work on mobile because the font size is 6pt and the line may be too wide for a phone. That’s something I should fix. The exposure, however, probably just needs a slider to increase or decrease what is considered black.

      Thanks for the honest feedback :)

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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:

      $ mpv -vo caca /dev/video0

      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 past mpv and mplayer have supported that as well.

      This will, among other things, permit viewing video on a plain text console.