v1.0 · GIF IN & OUT · IMPORT

EVERYTHING IS ASCII.

A real-time studio that turns images, GIFs, live video and text into pure ASCII, Unicode & Braille — tune it, animate it, then export it right back out.

IMAGE GIF TEXT WEBCAM BRAILLE UNICODE
torus.ascii — live

        
CHARSET: STANDARD60 FPS
IMAGE → ASCII  ·  GIF → ASCII  ·  TEXT → ASCII  ·  WEBCAM → ASCII  ·  @%#*+=-:.  ·  ░▒▓█  ·  ⠿⣿⠟  ·   IMAGE → ASCII  ·  GIF → ASCII  ·  TEXT → ASCII  ·  WEBCAM → ASCII  ·  @%#*+=-:.  ·  ░▒▓█  ·  ⠿⣿⠟  ·  

    
01 CAPABILITIES

        
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REAL-TIME IMAGE→ASCII

Drop any image and watch it resolve into glyphs as you tune resolution, contrast, brightness and inversion — live.


        
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GIF IN & OUT

Decode every frame of an animated GIF, play it back as ASCII, scrub and tune it, then re-encode a brand-new GIF.


        
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FIVE GLYPH SYSTEMS

Classic ramps, dense detail, Unicode blocks, high-res Braille, or define your own custom character set.


        
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LIVE WEBCAM

Point your camera and become ASCII in real time — mirrored, tunable, and running entirely in your browser.


        
05

EXPORT ANYTHING

One context-aware menu: copy to clipboard or save as .txt, .png, or a looping animated .gif.


        
06

IMPORT & ROUND-TRIP

Bring ASCII back in. Load a frames file, play it, retune it, and re-export it — losslessly.

02 THE PIPELINE
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SAMPLE

Each source frame is drawn to a canvas and down-sampled to a grid of cells at your chosen resolution.

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MAP

Per-cell luminance is curved through brightness & contrast, then matched to a glyph in the active ramp.

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RENDER

Glyphs paint to screen — optionally tinted by the source pixel — ready to copy, export, or animate.


    
03 GLYPH SYSTEMS — LIVE
STANDARD

      
DETAILED

      
BLOCKS

      
BRAILLE

      
CUSTOM

      

    

DROP AN IMAGE.
GET ASCII.

No signup. No upload. Everything runs right here in your browser.

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