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Your webcam as ASCII art (kaamkiya.github.io)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember when YouTube had a filter option to watch videos in ASCII for April Fools one year. Now I can do it whenever I want :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You'll love VLC's caca support: https://wiki.videolan.org/Video_Output/

(fun fact: "Kaka" in German is child's speech for "poop". Seems to be the same in French , looking at libcaca's page)