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src/java/clj_image2ascii/java/ImageToAscii.java
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@ -2,11 +2,19 @@ package clj_image2ascii.java;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
// This method of converting an image to ascii representation is based on the method used in
// Claskii (https://github.com/LauJensen/Claskii). Some improvements have been made, such as
// a better way of calculating pixel brightness and little tweaks to how the right ASCII
// character is selected, as well as obviously a conversion to Java purely for performance.
/**
* Converts an image to a string containing an ASCII representation if it, using ASCII
* characters as the pixels. If converting with color, each pixel will be wrapped in
* HTML to apply color.
*
* This method of converting an image to ASCII is based on the method used in Claskii
* (https://github.com/LauJensen/Claskii). Some improvements have been made, such as
* a better way of calculating pixel brightness, little tweaks to how the right ASCII
* character is selected, far less memory wasted during conversion, and obviously
* a total conversion to Java purely for performance benefits.
*
* @author gered
*/
public class ImageToAscii {
static final char[] asciiChars = {'#', 'A', '@', '%', '$', '+', '=', '*', ':', ',', '.', ' '};
static final int numAsciiChars = asciiChars.length - 1;