Asciicam

Running sample: https://escobar5.github.com/asciicam/

This is an html5 Ascii camera, it shows the camera stream as ascii art.

This is an example of how to use the getUserMedia API to capture video from the user camera and also how to play with video a canvas to generate an ascii camera.

Supported browsers

• Chrome 21+
• Opera 12+
• Firefox 31+

Notes

The code used for generating ascii from an image is from this tutorial: http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/cool-ascii-animation-using-an-image-sprite-canvas-and-javascript