Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Viewing Images Without Graphical Environment

I was just surfing net and found this interesting feature of Ubuntu.It's that we can convert a picture to lots of numbers and letters.When viewed from a distance, the contents of the photo can just about be made out. It's far from ideal one but it is quite fun and entertaining.
         To do this , first of all install aview and imagemagick packages from Ubuntu Software center.When the packages are installed, go to terminal and type:
                              $ asciiview filename.jpg
The file can be any image format.
After typing the command, hit q .It will generate the asciiview of the image.
For example, the graphical image is:
And the asciiview is:

           

2 comments:

  1. ya you are right ,its the terminal prompt...not included in the command

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