tim

A smol C program to generate text (braille, ASCII, block) art from images.

Instructions

Create a lib directory and copy stb_image.h and stb_image_resize2.h from https://github.com/nothings/stb into it.

$ make
$ ./tim /path/to/image

To-Do

• Add dynamic threshold calculation
• Add dynamic resized size calculation using winsize or take as argument using tput
• Take a threshold multiplier as an argument
• Take scale as an argument to override the default
• Use a custom scaling algorithm implementation

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayscale#Converting_color_to_grayscale
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17615963/standard-rgb-to-grayscale-conversion
• https://tannerhelland.com/2011/10/01/grayscale-image-algorithm-vb6.html

Test Cases

• https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/apu-apustaja