Bitmap to Ascii ? Why not !

[berka]

Hi !
Here is a total useless script... I know I work sometimes for nothing...

This revolutionary script is able to convert all your bitmap pictures in a (grayscale or colored) ascii art into a text file or a html webpage.

Put it above main:
works on rgss 1 & 2

 

#============================================================================== 

# ** Bitmap vers Ascii Art  

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

#  Par berka...                  http://www.rpgmakervx-fr.com 

# 

# Si vous trouvez une utilité quelconque à ce script, 

#  veuillez avoir l'aimabilité d'en avertir l'auteur 

#============================================================================== 

Tons=['M','@','#','8','0','O','o','c','+','{','|','!',';',':','.',' '] 

Fichier_TXT="./ascii.txt" 

Fichier_HTML="./ascii.html" 

class Bitmap 

  def to_ascii 

    fichier=File.open(Fichier_TXT,"w+") 

    (self.height).times{|y|(self.width).times{|x| 

        c=self.get_pixel(x,y) 

        cg=(c.red+c.green+c.blue)/3 

        cg/=(256/Tons.size) 

        fichier << Tons[cg]} 

      fichier << "\n"} 

    fichier.close 

  end 

  def to_ascii_html 

    fichier=File.open(Fichier_HTML,"w+") 

    fichier << "<pre>" 

    (self.height).times{|y|(self.width).times{|x| 

        c=self.get_pixel(x,y) 

        cg=(c.red+c.green+c.blue)/3 

        cg/=(256/Tons.size) 

        hexa="#" 

        [c.red,c.green,c.blue].each{|col|hexa+=col.to_i.to_s(16).rjust(2,"0")} 

        fichier << '<font color="'+hexa+'">'+Tons[cg]+'</font>'} 

      fichier << "\n"} 

      fichier << "</pre>" 

    fichier.close 

  end 

end

Using:
RMXP

@bmp=RPG::Cache.picture("test_txt").to_ascii

@bmp=RPG::Cache.picture("test_html").to_ascii_html

RMVX

@bmp=Cache.system("test_txt").to_ascii

@bmp=Cache.system("test_html").to_ascii_html

results:
html version

 

[JosephSeraph]

The only thing i can say is:Cool.... lol, i don´t see much point in it, but i am sure someone will.....
i have no idea of the benefits of this script, though it is nice, really, help to create script commented titles, i.e:

=begin
0 0 ^ ^'
1 Emoticons script by ???? U
--- !---!
=end

(i am sure this will appear buggy, XD)

Thanks ^^

 

[SephirothSpawn]

lol

Simple yet kinda neat. I like it. Good work. :cheers:

 

[Brewmeister]

That's one elegant looking piece of code. Nice!

Geez, even program code sounds sexy in french!!! :scruff:

Not a clue what it would be used for. (Although, I do have a friend with a 48" plotter!)

I stumbled on a couple websites that have similar online applications (upload a pic, get a ascii art output).
Novelty?

Thanks for sharing.

 

[berka]

thanks !

 

[Wichu]

Haha, I made a very similar script to this as well. Mine didn't have colour, though.
Here's some suggestions - incorporate transparency, and export it as BBCode as well. Also, instead of making the constants global, you could keep them in the Bitmap class; there could be another script using Tons as a constant name, so putting it inside the Bitmap class would make it less likely to be incompatible. I know it's a nitpick, but you never know...

 

[berka]

all right, I m gonna make a bbcode version !


edit: well... the main problem is about the translation of pre tag to bbcode...
this may be changed with the "code" tag, but bbcode doesn't parse the content...

 

[linkz0r]

A script, for the lulz. Schweet :3

 

[platipus]

can u make it so it turns into an ascii png file? that would PWNNNNN, lol.
thats a very new idea though, good job.