Render images in your terminal using unicode characters and ANSI color codes
Python3 & PIL
python3 -m pip install pillow
usage: img2term.py [-h] [-v]
[-c {full,full_blocks,half_blocks,quarter_blocks}]
[-s width height]
image
positional arguments:
image the image to be converted
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
-c {full,full_blocks,half_blocks,quarter_blocks}, --charset {full,full_blocks,half_blocks,quarter_blocks}
the character set used in conversion
-s width height, --size width height
output image dimensions
Use -s {} {} or --size {} {} to set the size of the output image.
Since the height of each character is twice the width, you will need to take account of this when setting the size, for example:
An image that was 600x400 (width, height), would become 60x20 to maintain the same aspect ratio
Choosing a different set of characters changes the possible unicode characters that will be used to display the image:
full_blocks consists of just █. Each character will be 1 colour.
half_blocks consists of █ and ▄ . Each character could be split into two vertically, providing double the pixel density.
quarter_blocks consists of: ▎,▌,▊,▁,▂,▃,▄,▅,▆,▇,█,▘,▝,▖,▗
allowing much finer subdivisions of each character
full, the default value, consists of all of the above, along with:▚,▒,━,┃,╱,╲,◢,◣,◤,◥. Making even finer details possible with the inclusion of angles.
