ascii-animator 0.1.2

A simple ASCII art animator

ascii-animator

A simple ASCII text animator.

The ascii-art-animator CLI will take as input a GIF image, extract all the frames from it, convert each frame to ASCII art using ascii-magic, then display each frame to the terminal using l2term.

Installation

pip install ascii_animator

Usage

ascii-art-animator --help
usage: ascii-art-animator [-h] [-s SPEED] [-f FILE] [-d]

Ascii Art Animator from GIF

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SPEED, --speed SPEED
                        speed of the animation: very_slow, slow, normal, fast (default normal)
  -f FILE, --file FILE  the path to a gif file
  -d, --debug           display debug messages to stdout

Examples

ASCII conversion and animation of GIF images

Convert the following GIF image

ascii-art-animator -f docs/images/marcovich.gif

Convert the following GIF image

ascii-art-animator -f docs/images/afuera.gif -s fast

Game-Of-Life

A Conway Game-Of-Life implementation that uses ascii_animator to display the game to the terminal.

Development

Clone the repository and ensure the latest version of Docker is installed on your development server.

Build the Docker image:

docker image build \
-t \
ascii-animator:latest .

Run the Docker container:

docker container run \
--rm \
-it \
-v $PWD:/code \
ascii-animator:latest \
bash

Execute the build:

pyb -X