Video to ASCII

Context

An exploration of how moving images can be represented using a terminal's character grid.

What it does

• Video selection from a built-in menu
• frame resizing and grayscale conversion
• intensity-to-character mapping
• terminal playback
• accompanying audio through miniaudio

Engineering focus

The conversion pipeline connects video decoding, terminal dimensions, character density, and frame timing. It provides a concrete way to examine the tradeoffs between visual detail and the constraints of a text interface.

My role

Development work represented in my public repository.