Want to play with the power of ASCII characters? Replace the pixels of your photos with ASCII characters and watch the difference.
Ascgen is a simple yet small and efficient desktop app which helps you to convert images into high quality ASCII art-text that accurately represents the original image. This ASCII art-text is very much used by people in SMS, in simple words it is a text based art in which the general ascii character set is used. Below is the image of ‘Smiley’ designed using ascii art.
To start with this app all you need to do is, just download the zip file and run the application. The application have easy-to-use interface, you can load the image from your computer as indicated in the image below. To select an image area you can click and drag on an image. You can also move and resize the selection box to easily modify your selection area.
You can easily play with the settings and customize your ascii art, such as tweaking with the options like brightness, contrast and dither can further enhance the art. Below is the sample ascii art being converted from Ascgen.
After finally saving the work, we can get the ultimate ASCII-art generated by this app, which may appear as shown:
Please Note: To run the application you require .NET framework 2.0 or above version installed in your system. Windows vista and 7 already has it by default. If you don’t have you can download it from this link.
Download Ascgen: here