Image2ASCII

Capable of converting .PNG and .PPM images to ASCII art

This program is written in C++

Features:

• Resizes Console to maximum resolution, so a bigger ASCII art is generated
• The ASCII pictures always fit in the Console window, even when you resize it
• Has a dynamic menu, which lists folders and pic files from ./images/
• Put your .PNG and .PPM images and folders in ./images/
• You can set a loop number which generates more pictures successively
• It is advised to put extracted .gif pictures (PNGs) in one folder and then loop can be used for animation!
• You can redirect the output from Console window to output file
• You can resize the ASCII picture
• It supports Extended and Basic ASCII Character Sets too

For compiling:

• Used external library: PDCURSES (Windows) - http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/
  • Building instructions for Windows:
  • Download pdcurs34.zip
  • in cmd.exe (or in msys) set PDCURSES_SRCDIR = <main pdcurses root folder>
  • then set environment variable (path) to C:\MinGW\bin
  • then in pdcurses root folder: mingw32-make.exe -f .\win32\mingwin32.mak
  • after it is finished you have to include pdcurses.a in your project's linker (and curses.h header is in main pdcurses root folder)

Others:

• Used external functions for decoding .PNG images: LodePNG - http://lodev.org/lodepng/
• Used external exe for creating Character Tables: png2charset - http://www.piclist.com/techref/datafile/charset/extractor/charset_extractor.htm

The main OS target was Windows, but should be working on other systems too (the windows only functions are in seperate files)