isee

I See

Generate Ascii art from image.

Deprecated

Better tool for this purpose: https://github.com/qeesung/image2ascii

Installation

Require go 1.24+

go install github.com/mawngo/isee@latest

Usage

convert image

> isee gray .\my-image.jpeg

or convert directory of images

> isee gray .\my-dir

Options

> isee gray --help  
Generate grayscale ascii art

Usage:
  isee grayscale [flags]

Aliases:
  grayscale, gray

Flags:
  -h, --help                 help for grayscale
      --ramps string         Character ramps used to generate image
  -v, --vertical-ratio int   Shrinking height of the image (to % of the original size) (default 35)
  -w, --width uint           Width of the ascii art (default 80)

Global Flags:
      --debug   Enable debug mode

Examples

> isee gray .\saturn.jpg

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