May 29, 2007

Photo 2 Text

Photo 2 Text is a way make your photograph a piece of ASCII art. This isn't actually a new idea, and you can find tons of tools and libraries to do this if you search, but this site is a quick and easy way.

A few years ago, I wrote a program to do something similar given a bunch of text. It worked best on smaller images and produced color output by way of HTML. A sample of it's output using an outdated version of my resume can be seen as an image of Tux the penguin.

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