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Pedro Pinto

Instagram into ASCII Art — Turn any Instagram picture into impressive ASCII art

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AJ M
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Well well... Literally just published this and it's on Product Hunt already. Just a little tool I made after yesterday's discovery that all Instagram and Facebook pictures are converted into ASCII Art. (http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2...) This makes it easier for not-so-tech-savvy users to do the same at the click of a button.
Ryan Hoover
So cool and it turns it into actual ASCII, not a photo. I just made this:
AJ M
Maker
@rrhoover Cheers Ryan! Happy to have unintentionally made my PH debut, even if it was from a project that came out of procrastination. Have some stuff in store which I'm really excited about . Soon soon :)
Ahmad Awais ⚡
Hey, @asjad! Handy little tool ;)
AJ M
Maker
@mrahmadawais You agree, so does Ryan. I think it's been worth a few hours of procrastination then :D Also not bad to have Mizar e Qauid on the front of PH for a day ;)
Gabriel Reynard
Cool tool, thanks for creating.
Vivek Sancheti
I think its by default there with instagram and fb pic! See this: FB: Original Pic: Colored ASCII: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamai... [add.html in end] Black n white ASCII: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamai... [add .txt in end] Instagram: Original Pic: Colored ASCII: https://scontent.cdninstagram.co... Black n White: https://scontent.cdninstagram.co...
AJ M
Maker
@evivz Vivek, if you read my comment, you can see that I acknowledged the existence of Facebook's auto ASCII already. This is exactly what the tool uses.
Jonathan Nabais
Do you know an app that does the same thing but for photos? In fact, I need to assemble for example 200 photos and when you look from 1 meter, it's only one photo. Thanks ;)
AJ M
Maker
@jonathannabais Hey Jonathan, the best conversion I've found is actually Facebooks own. The easiest thing would be to make a new FB account and upload all 200 pictures to it. You can then use the append ".html" method (which I've linked to in my original comment) to covert the pictures.
Jamie Perkins
Nice tool. Don't you think that you should explain on http://thought.ai/ascii/ that your app isn't doing the conversion?
AJ M
Maker
@inorganik Hey Jamie, I originally made the tool for fun and wasn't the one who posted it here. I will put something in the footer to acknowledge that tomorrow when I get to my laptop. Cheers :)