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Chinese ascii fork from @enjalot
license: mit
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.5/d3.min.js"></script>
<style>
body { margin:0;position:fixed;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0; }
svg { width:100%; height: 100% }
#ascii {
font-size: 6px;
font-family: monospace;
line-height: 1em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="base-image"></canvas>
<div id="container">
<pre id="ascii"></pre>
</div>
<script>
var ascii = document.getElementById("ascii");
var canvas = document.getElementById('base-image');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var link = "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1466175?v=4"
var asciiScale = d3.scale.ordinal()
.domain(['我', '你', "大", "一" ,"。"])
.range([0, 50, 121, 200, 255])
var width, height;
var outputResolution = 64;
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function(){
var outputH = outputResolution * img.height / img.width;
canvas.width = outputResolution;
canvas.height = outputH;
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, outputResolution, outputH);
var data = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, outputResolution, outputH);
render(data)
}
img.crossOrigin = '';
img.src = link;
function render(pixels){
var colordata = pixels.data;
asciiScale.invert = function(x){
return this.domain()[d3.bisect(this.range(), x) - 1];
}
var r, g, b, gray;
var character, line = '';
for(var i = 0; i < colordata.length; i = i+4){
r = colordata[i];
g = colordata[i+1];
b = colordata[i+2];
//converting the pixel into grayscale
gray = r*0.2126 + g*0.7152 + b*0.0722;
//text for ascii art.
//blackish = dense characters like "W", "@"
//whitish = light characters like "`", "."
character = asciiScale.invert(gray);
//newlines and injection into dom
if(i != 0 && (i/4)%outputResolution == 0){ //if the pointer reaches end of pixel-line
ascii.appendChild(document.createTextNode(line));
//newline
ascii.appendChild(document.createElement("br"));
//emptying line for the next row of pixels.
line = "";
}
line += character;
}
}
</script>
</body>
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