Chafa by Hans Petter Jansson converts images and video to text for terminals. We posted about it before but there are new example images that demonstrates how e.g colour and character sets affect the results.
Original
16 colours, compatible with many terminals
24-bit colour
2 default terminal colours and allows control codes for inverted characters.
240 fixed colours
No colours, no control.
Original
ASCII-fill (16 colours)
Braille fill (16 colours)
No fill (16 colours)
Offpunk is like an offline browser that saves the internet on your harddrive so you can browse it in the terminal. Images are converted with Chafa. Made by Ploum.
Offpunk obviously works best with uncomplicated websites, but if you want to browse any website in textmode, no in the terminal, you can use Browsh.
ASCII Theater by the American art collective MSCHF, 2024. An easy way to look at ANSI-versions of movies in the terminal. Today streaming Barbie, tomorrow Hereditary! From their Instagram-post:
ASCII Theater plays movies as text, directly in Terminal. A single line of code begins playing a new movie every day, like a pirate radio broadcast. The movies are rendered not as video but as colored text characters – every frame can be copied and pasted as a giant string of letters.
There is a long internet tradition of hacks to stream content online, and the resulting workarounds become creatively expressive. That kid who streamed NBA games in the reflection of his sunglasses on Twitch is a hero.
ASCII Theater is now live, streaming a new movie every day until we get shut down.
via kottke.org. Browse our terminal tag.
The Sabler series by Studio Yorktown (Kwame Bruce Busia), 2022. Sabler is an anagram of Albers (Anni Albers).
BAMBI versus GODZILLA, by Dave Brett for the VT100 terminal. A comment on the video mentions seeing it in 1980, so this post is dated to 1979.
It’s based on an animation from 1969 by Marv Newland. This and other VT100-animations are available at textfiles.com.
Xbin works (ANSI with custom fonts and colours) made by participants in Heikki Lotvonen‘s (grmmxi) workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts. via sixteencolors
Karel Martens‘ work for Guy’s Hospital Cancer Centre in London, 2016.
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