I played around with ASCII art packages that can be created from the command line.
- ASCII art packages
apt-get install cowsay
apt-get install figlet
apt-get install toilet
apt-get install jp2acowsay
A cow talks.
$cowsay lol
_____
< lol >
-----
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||figlet
Convenient for text โ ASCII art output.
Can change fonts with the -f option.
figlet Hello!
_ _ _ _ _
| | | | ___| | | ___ | |
| |_| |/ _ \ | |/ _ \| |
| _ | __/ | | (_) |_|
|_| |_|\___|_|_|\___/(_)
Figlet x Toilet
Figlet x Toilet can do some interesting things.
watch -n1 "date '+%D%n%T'|figlet -k" while true; do echo "$(date '+%D %T' | toilet -f term -F border --gay)"; sleep 1; done
Every 1.0s: date '+%D%n%T'|figlet -k Fri Jul 21 18:28:15 2017
___ _____ __ ____ _ __ _ _____
/ _ \|___ |/ /|___ \ / | / // ||___ |
| | | | / // / __) || | / / | | / /
| |_| | / // / / __/ | | / / | | / /
\___/ /_//_/ |_____||_|/_/ |_| /_/
_ ___ ____ ___ _ ____
/ | ( _ ) _ |___ \ ( _ ) _ / || ___|
| | / _ \(_) __) |/ _ \(_)| ||___ \
| || (_) |_ / __/| (_) |_ | | ___) |
|_| \___/(_)|_____|\___/(_)|_||____/
jp2a
jp2a can convert images โ ASCII art.
The precision is quite good, I was impressed.
NAME="image.jpg"
jp2a --width=200 -f -i $NAME | tee AA_$NAME.txtโOpening the text file in an editor looks like this.
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