Image to Ascii

Inspiration

We wanted to try out something new yet simple, we had a couple new hackers on the team so we picked a smaller project that had a little bit of complexity

What it does

It converts an image that is provided into ascii art

How we built it

First we converted the image pixel by pixel into a gray scale value which we then mapped to 1 of 70 characters that represented different brightness levels.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a minor issue with some of the calculations for the greyscale converter, our team mate kyle luckily was able to sort the problem out relatively easily

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Being able to write a project in a new language for the new hackers, and have them not only understand the code but improve and fix it as well

What we learned

Dall E endpoints are annoying to interface with, which is ultimately why it got scrapped

What's next for Image to Ascii

I dont really know but likely next Hackathon we will pick up a larger scale problem after everyone is more comfortable doing so

Built With

• java