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Your webcam as ASCII art (kaamkiya.github.io)
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I wrote a program that turns the feed it receives from your webcam in ASCII art. It's open source: you can find the code on Github.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I assume from that screenshot that there isn't color support, but if you're on Linux, you can do something similar locally with color support:

$ mpv -vo caca /dev/video0

At least on my Debian Trixie system, it looks like they aren't building mpv with aalib support anymore, an older monochrome image-to-text library, just libcaca, but I know that in the past mpv and mplayer have supported that as well.

This will, among other things, permit viewing video on a plain text console.