Generating ASCII Art from image using Python

   

# https://dev.to/anuragrana/generating-ascii-art-from-colored-image-using-python-4ace

import sys

from PIL import Image

image_path = "Thejus1.png"

img = Image.open(image_path)

width, height = img.size

aspect_ratio = height/width

new_width = 120

new_height = aspect_ratio * new_width * 0.55

img = img.resize((new_width, int(new_height)))

img = img.convert('L')

pixels = img.getdata()

chars = ["B","S","#","&","@","$","%","*","!",":"," "]

new_pixels = [chars[pixel//25] for pixel in pixels]

new_pixels = ''.join(new_pixels)

new_pixels_count = len(new_pixels)

ascii_image = [new_pixels[index:index + new_width] for index in range(0, new_pixels_count, new_width)]

ascii_image = "\n".join(ascii_image)

print(ascii_image)

with open("ThejusASCII.txt", "w") as f:

  f.write(ascii_image)