ASCII Booth

Workshop

Example code for ASCII Art Workshop, you can see my slide deck for the workshop here

Further reading

Below are some of the sources I used whilst researching the history of ASCII art and how to build an image to ASCII Art converter:

• ASCII Art FAQ
• Joan G. Stark's History of ASCII can also be found here
• More from Joan G. Stark
• The Coding Train video on converting images to ASCII (which inspired me to choose this project)

Interesting ASCII projects

I came across some fun ASCII Art projects by other people whilst working on this project, here are some of my favourites:

• This text to ASCII font converter by Patrick Gillespie is a lot of fun to play around with, it's interesting to see all the creative ways people have used ASCII to achieve different styles of text.

Reference

https://python-escpos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html#

A long tradition of ASCII Photo Booths

I'm far from the first person to build a photo booth that converters pictures to ASCII Art! Below is a list of some examples I encountered whilst researching for this project:

• The ASCII Photo Booth Scott Murray, 2008