ena-ascii

A simple texture-aware ASCII art generator. Named after Ena Shinonome from Project Sekai.

Requirements

• Python 3.?
• PIL

Usage

• genFont.py: reads a specified font and stores images of characters in assets\fontpic\
• genPic.py inputImage [width]: resizes an image file (optional) and make an ascii art, storing into output\

How this work

• convert images of glyphs into gray level matrices, elements ranging from 0 (black) to 255 (white)
• slice inputImage into integral parts (after resizing and negating, if necessary) and convert it into a matrix too
• treat aforementioned matrices as vectors, calculate dot product character-wise and accept the glyph with highest score

Samples

Sample Image	Convert Result

• using be5invis/Iosevka with fontSize=16
• resized from 640x640 to 1280x1281

References

• Sample image: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/101652094