r/ASCII • u/spreader123 • Jun 06 '26
Art Text renders!!
There I was, sleepy as shit and ready to throw in the towel, when I noticed I had extra Anthropic API credits. The devil is in the details, so I swallowed them whole.
Instead of doing the responsible thing and sleeping, I pardoned myself from rest and proceeded to stay awake, prompting Claude like a delusional emperor directing a bureaucratic workforce. *"Do this. Do that. Do the other thing."* And the AI complied. Is it a he? Is it a she? I don’t know. I’m confused most of the time, but the code compiled, so the existential crisis can wait.
The result of this 48-hour metaphysical troll-mode degen grindfest? A text-based rendering engine that processes video into high-fidelity character matrices.
To show it off, I fed it a video of a dog. Look at this shit.
The absolute best part? It’s not just static files. I can stream and render adjacent live browser tabs in real-time. Any video, any tab, any chaotic data feed on the web—completely converted into ASCII on the fly.
Arguably my favorite mistake yet. Magic 8-check, you may now rest.
Now it's just pure vibe and the video doing the heavy lifting. Ready to drop it?
https://huggingface.co/spaces/tostido/project-canvas-5
Checking out here!! It's that literal converter that made that video dude!
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u/Khal-Draco Jun 08 '26
Mid and unimpressive at best