It has very little to do with ASCII but cool nonetheless.

maybe there is more going on here but it's relatively easy to make a text post processing shader and apply it to anything, 3d scene, a video, etc...

https://post-processing.tresjs.org/guide/pmndrs/ascii

https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/ascii-shader-using-glsl-postpr...

https://threejs.org/examples/?q=ascii#webgl_effects_ascii

https://fwdapps.net/l/asci/

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/ascii-postprocessing-n628p8...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeRcnLr0ko

This is cool... But I feel like having different color/brightness for each symbol kinda defeats the purpose of it being ASCII when the symbols only correspond to different intensities anyway.

Trippy!

  browsh https://caidan.dev/portfolio/ascii_clouds/

I had a similar effect for a C program I wrote a long time ago (I think 2007?). Here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4j-BkwMB20

and the code: https://github.com/kristopolous/ascsee

I just updated it so it compiles on modern systems.

I also found the original version if you like being an archaeologist: https://9ol.es/tmp/gol.c

Spent longer than I'd like to admit trying to recreate the Balatro background effect...

Just throwing a HELL YES <with a kung fu punch> out there for this. Nice work. I've been trying to integrate a live ascii video feature for a while now and the subtle detail on this is really inspiring.

Well thats pretty cool!

Neat. It'd be more "ASCII" if it used 8x16 pixel (but right extended to 9x16) characters in 80:133 width:height aspect ratio since 80x25 characters at 720x400 on 4:3 results in 80:133 pixels. An arbitrary sized canvas is cool so long as the aspect ratio is preserved.

The infamous MCGA/"VGA" mode 13h had pixels with an aspect ratio 6:5, while 320 x 240 Mode X was square (1:1).

I still remember the unchained offset calculation for the memory offset for pixel memory access before the era of U and V pipes and many optimizing compiler passes:

    unsigned short offset = (((y << 2) + y) << 6) + x;
    unsigned char far *ptr = (unsigned char far*)MK_FP(0xA000, offset);

Dope!

Would love this as an audio visualizer

What is this?

What do you see in the clouds?

Here I'm being ridiculous but I was a bit disappointed that it was a canvas rendering and not a mono-font text block

That is magic

that looks pretty good

I don't understand.

nicee