Webcam To ASCII Art

Converts Frames from webcam into ASCII Art

Run Application Run the main method in the UnoApp class or use the following command in the terminal:

Sample Output

Sample.Output.mp4

How It Works

Input Frames

Webcam Capture API from https://github.com/sarxos/webcam-capture was used to get frames from the Webcam in the form of BufferedImages

Frame Processing

• Based on the final static variable SIZE, the number of characters for width and height is determined.
• The character displayed will be determined by the average brightness of the set of pixels which is determined by averaging the red, green, and blue values.
• The output of this will be a 2d char array.

Output

• The 2d char array will then be the input for the Display class which utilizes the Java Swing Package for a window display.

Class Description

Main

This class contains the main method which contains the most basic flow of the program. It also houses the imageToAscii method which converts BufferedImage to 2D char array that contains ASCII characters.

Display

This is the class responsible for displaying the 2D char array into a window.

Utilities

This class contains various methods for easy access by the Main class and allows the Main class to be more organized. The static final String SHORTSET and FULLSET are two of the common ways to order brightness of ASCII Characters.