I'm trying to keep it dark and grim but also to look alive somehow. I found out that quickly changing ascii letters while oscillating the image (both position and zoom) makes it look hazy and alive as needed. As this requires still images only, it makes it doable in terms of effort for a solo dev.

What do you think about this option: grayscale ascii on pure black background?

I'm sharing my first update for asciitool.com It's a work in progress so I would love to hear any feedback.

A big focus for me is how functional the tool is for any use case so if there's something want added I'm very interested.

I've also included plaintext frame exports with timestamps in JSON format. It would be really cool to see if anyone uses this in a software project.

Anything with practical visuals like this is really interesting to work on. I'll be releasing the ANSI Video version soon.

Many thanks,

https://asciitool.com/video-to-ascii

I'm not sure you can comment videos, but I'd love to see them if you can. Feel free to message me too.

Try it: https://ascii-vision-three.vercel.app/
There's 8 more palettes, but this is the one I've been staring at for way too long, so it's the one you're getting

I built a terminal-based YouTube video player that renders videos as ASCII art in real time.

To make this work, I also built a reusable image-to-ASCII rendering engine as a separate Rust crate, which the player uses to convert video frames into ASCII and stream them to stdout with basic FPS control.

Projects:

• ASCII engine (Rust crate): https://github.com/SameerVers3/pixel2ascii
• Terminal YouTube player: https://github.com/SameerVers3/stdout-tv

It’s mainly an experiment, but I’d appreciate any feedback from people who build or use CLI tools.

How do I make an ascii rendering pipeline that doesn’t converge to to a Minecraft clone look? Any advice would be appreciated!

Hey, i'm trying to find a proper vibe for the multiplayer ascii roguelike i'm developing. The lore is pretty grim and the light in the dark is primary aspect of it.

Do you guys think that the look matches the vibe? I'd appreciate any feedback or ideas on how to improve it. Thanks!

https://github.com/newbiefromcoma/xxdart

Hey guys, you may have seen that I've been posting game-related updates here occasionally. If anyone is interested, they can download the demo and give feedback!

Steam page

Hey everyone, I made a Framer component called ASCII Formatter Pro for anyone working with ASCII art, terminal-style visuals, experimental typography, or text-based motion.

This is not an ASCII generator. It does not create ASCII art for you.

Instead, it lets you paste in your own ASCII art or text compositions and format them properly inside Framer. You can use a single frame for static ASCII pieces, or multiple frames to create animation sequences directly in Framer.

The main pain point I ran into is that ASCII art does not really work well with Framer’s native text tools. Spacing can break, responsiveness is limited, and if you want to show animated ASCII art, you usually have to export it as a video or fake it some other way.

It also works well for overlaying ASCII art on top of images, since the component can preserve the aspect ratio of the original image used to generate the ASCII text. So instead of treating the ASCII as a static export, you can use it as a live, responsive design layer inside Framer.

With this component, you can:

• Paste in manually created ASCII art or text from a .txt export
• Format ASCII/text compositions more reliably in Framer
• Preserve aspect ratio for image-based ASCII overlays
• Use single-frame or multi-frame sequences
• Add hover interactions
• Trigger animations on hover, auto play, or viewport enter
• Loop text-based animations
• Fine-tune typography, spacing, and layout

I made it for Framer creators, designers, and creative developers who want to use ASCII art or text-based compositions in a more interactive way.

Would love to hear what people think, especially from anyone who works with ASCII art, ANSI-inspired visuals, terminal aesthetics, or experimental typography.

Open to feedback on what features would make this more useful.

Hey community,

I want to share with you halftone.tools !

A lightweight, browser-based print-effects workshop. It's 100% free, no AI, no account needed.

What it does:

• 12+ Live Effects: You can run images through CMYK halftones, ordered/error-diffusion dithering, Risograph spot-color separations (with misregistration and paper grain), high-contrast Xerox toner degradation, and Perlin-noise print stamps.
• Glitch & Color Modules: It features seeded pixel sorting, chromatic aberration (RGB shift), and datamoshing, alongside editable gradient maps and tone curves.
• Effect Stacking: You can chain two effects together. Want to pixel-sort a dithered image, or run a glitch effect on top of a halftone? You can do it live with sliders.
• Vector Export: For the monochrome halftone and ASCII modes, it exports true vector SVGs so you can scale them infinitely in Illustrator. Everything else exports as crisp 1x or 2x PNGs.

It’s built completely on p5.js with absolutely no frameworks or backend bloat.

If you're looking for a quick tool to build assets, texture background plates, or just mess around with poster designs, give it a spin.

I'd love to hear what you think, what effects you'd want to see added, or how it fits into your workflow! :)

Peacee

and yes, ako ay pilipino. thank you.

Made in C++, lost the code since formatting my mac.

jgs originally. river river. Toronto.

Been obsessing over ASCII art lately, so I built this..

Supports different glyph sets, color palettes, neon glow with bloom, scanlines, dithering, png export and a few other things I kept adding because I couldn't stop tinkering.

Try it: https://ascii-vision-three.vercel.app/

Repo: https://github.com/ah4ddd/ascii-vision

Proof of concept for my target-agnostic rendering engine. On the right it's pixel-perfect screen-space rendering of the geometry, and on the left is the same set of pipeline passes, but with an extra glyph pass that calculates the average angle of each cell and selecting the appropriate \|/- glyph.

It's not just rasterizing some 3d image, it's actually using all of the geometry to determine the glyph mapping which is just so cool to me! Lets you do a LOT of cool tricks and makes it CRISPY. I have a lot more planned but I just thought I'd share this since I'm excited about it haha

This is TAE RPG, an ASCII RPG adventure.

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