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ASCII Animations - SpriggsySpriggs - 10-21-2023
Inspired by the thread started by mnrvovrfc (https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2112), I converted the whole Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up music video to an ASCII animation.
And the code:
Code: (Select All)
Option Explicit
$NoPrefix
Screen NewImage(80, 25)
'You know the rules and so do I
Sleep
Open "B", 1, "rickroll.txt"
Dim As Long x
Dim As String pic, buf
Dim As Long s: s = SndOpen("02 - Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up.flac", "STREAM")
If s Then SndPlay (s)
While Not EOF(1)
For x = 0 To 24
If EOF(1) = 0 Then
Line Input #1, buf
pic = pic + buf
End If
Next
Cls
Print Mid$(pic, 2)
Limit 60
pic = ""
If EOF(1) Then Exit While
Wend
CloseConverted the video like this:
1) Download a GIF or video with plain background, preferably white. In my case, I had to get the green screen version of the music video and then use Kdenlive to make it white.
2) Use ffmpeg to convert the video/GIF into a JPEG image sequence
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ffmpeg -i rickroll.mkv -vsync 0 rickroll/rickroll_%d.jpg
img2ascii.txt (Size: 3.15 KB / Downloads: 82)
(save as img2ascii.py) in a bash loop to iterate over each frame and convert them into ASCII text filesCode: (Select All)
#!/bin/bash
for filename in rickroll/*.jpg; do
sem -j+0 python img2ascii.py --file "$filename" --out rickroll/$(basename "$filename".txt)
done
#you might have to kill this sem call to proceed
sem --wait
cat $(find rickroll/ -name "rickroll_*.jpg.txt" | sort -V) >> rickroll.txt
rm rickroll/rickroll_*.jpg.txt
echo "DONE"5) ???
6) Profit
If you don't want to go through all that and just want to run it:
Linux -
rickroll_lnx.zip (Size: 30.2 MB / Downloads: 125)
Windows -
rickroll_win.zip (Size: 30.51 MB / Downloads: 146)
RE: ASCII Animations - SpriggsySpriggs - 10-21-2023
Applied the same method to the Dragostea Din Tei music video. Not as clean since the background isn't removed.
RE: ASCII Animations - SpriggsySpriggs - 10-21-2023
Found another tool I can run in bash to remove background from images using machine learning. Letting that run on a new video to see how well it does for the ASCII animation project
RE: ASCII Animations - SpriggsySpriggs - 10-22-2023
New processing workflow is quite good and much faster than my old one. Here are a couple of videos made using the new process:
RE: ASCII Animations - mnrvovrfc - 10-22-2023
The "Daishabet" has a psychedelic "feeling", don't know how else to describe it.
Too bad it was limited to 20 lines of the terminal, LOL.
Apparently this stuff is too much for:
https://asciinema.org/
"Forget screen-recording apps and blurry video." Yeah, right!
RE: ASCII Animations - SpriggsySpriggs - 10-22-2023
P.S. asciinema does work with it
RE: ASCII Animations - madscijr - 10-27-2023
(10-21-2023, 07:15 AM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: Inspired by the thread started by mnrvovrfc (https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2112), I converted the whole Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up music video to an ASCII animation.Thanks for sharing this - I like that you also included the ffmpeg examples!
This will be fun to play with!