diff --git a/src/clojure/toascii/models/image.clj b/src/clojure/toascii/models/image.clj
index 713e48e..6c04bcb 100644
--- a/src/clojure/toascii/models/image.clj
+++ b/src/clojure/toascii/models/image.clj
@@ -1,55 +1,15 @@
 (ns toascii.models.image
-  "Largely based on the Claskii library: https://github.com/LauJensen/Claskii"
   (:import (java.awt RenderingHints Graphics2D Image)
            (java.awt.image BufferedImage Raster)
            (javax.imageio ImageIO)
            (java.io File)
-           (java.net URL))
+           (java.net URL)
+           (toascii.images ImageToAscii))
   (:require [clojure.string :as str]
             [cemerick.url :as url]
             [toascii.util :refer [query-param-url->java-url]])
   (:use hiccup.core))
 
-(def ascii-chars [\# \A \@ \% \$ \+ \= \* \: \, \. \space])
-(def num-ascii-chars (count ascii-chars))
-
-(defn- add-pixel [^Integer argb ^StringBuilder sb color?]
-  (let [r          (bit-shift-right (bit-and 0x00ff0000 argb) 16)
-        g          (bit-shift-right (bit-and 0x0000ff00 argb) 8)
-        b          (bit-and 0x000000ff argb)
-        peak       (int
-                     (Math/sqrt
-                       (+ (* r r 0.241)
-                          (* g g 0.691)
-                          (* b b 0.068))))
-        char-index (if (zero? peak)
-                     (dec num-ascii-chars)
-                     (dec (int (* num-ascii-chars (/ peak 255)))))
-        pixel-char (nth ascii-chars (if (pos? char-index) char-index 0))]
-    (if color?
-      (doto sb
-        (.append "<span style=\"color: rgb(")
-        (.append r)
-        (.append ",")
-        (.append g)
-        (.append ",")
-        (.append b)
-        (.append ");\">")
-        (.append pixel-char)
-        (.append "</span>"))
-      pixel-char)))
-
-(defn- pixels->ascii [^BufferedImage image color?]
-  (let [width        (.getWidth image)
-        height       (.getHeight image)
-        sb           (StringBuilder. (+ (* width height 47) (* height 4)))
-        ^ints pixels (.getRGB image 0 0 width height nil 0 width)]
-    (dotimes [y height]
-      (dotimes [x width]
-        (add-pixel (aget pixels (+ x (* y width))) sb color?))
-      (.append sb (if color? "<br>" \newline)))
-    (.toString sb)))
-
 (defn get-image-by-url
   (^BufferedImage [^String url]
    (try
@@ -91,24 +51,7 @@
          final-image   (if-not (= new-width current-width)
                          (scale-image image new-width)
                          image)]
-     (pixels->ascii final-image color?))))
+     (ImageToAscii/convert final-image color?))))
 
 (defn wrap-pre-tag [s]
-  (str "<pre style=\"font-size:6pt; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:5pt; font-weight:bold;\">" s "</pre>"))
-
-
-#_(set! *warn-on-reflection* true)
-
-
-#_(require '[criterium.core :as c])
-
-#_(c/bench
-  (let [f (File. "./test/images/test.png")
-        image (get-image-by-file f)
-        ascii (convert-image image true)]
-    (count ascii)))
-
-#_(let [f (File. "./test/images/test.png")
-      image (get-image-by-file f)
-      ascii (convert-image image true)]
-  (count ascii))
\ No newline at end of file
+  (str "<pre style=\"font-size:6pt; letter-spacing:1px; line-height:5pt; font-weight:bold;\">" s "</pre>"))
\ No newline at end of file