kword: an image > ascii converter

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I have been tooling around with typewriter “ASCII art” style image reproduction for some time, well, since I acquired my typewriter.

I found several problems with existing image to ASCII generators for my application (reproducing digital images on a typewriter):

Is a picture worth a 1000 word ASCII image? #

I decided to write an ASCII image generator of my own. It runs in the browser using <canvas> and I call it kword.

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Bottom left vs. center: kword optimization at work!

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Try it #

kword - live demo

kword - source code

More screenshots / generated images #

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1-bit Floyd-Steinberg dithering

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Works on Presidents

 
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