Image to ASCII Art

 from PIL import Image

# Define ASCII characters for different levels of brightness

ASCII_CHARS = ["@", "#", "S", "%", "?", "*", "+", ";", ":", ",", "."]

def resize_image(image, new_width=100):

    """Resizes the image while maintaining aspect ratio."""

    width, height = image.size

    aspect_ratio = height / width

    new_height = int(new_width * aspect_ratio * 0.55)  # Adjusting for terminal aspect ratio

    return image.resize((new_width, new_height))

def grayify(image):

    """Converts the image to grayscale."""

    return image.convert("L")

def pixels_to_ascii(image):

    """Maps grayscale pixel values to ASCII characters."""

    pixels = image.getdata()

    ascii_str = "".join(ASCII_CHARS[pixel // 25] for pixel in pixels)

    return ascii_str

def convert_image_to_ascii(image_path, new_width=100):

    """Main function to convert image to ASCII art."""

    try:

        image = Image.open(image_path)

    except Exception as e:

        print(f"Unable to open image file: {image_path}")

        print(e)

        return

    # Resize and process the image

    image = resize_image(image, new_width)

    image = grayify(image)

    # Convert pixels to ASCII

    ascii_str = pixels_to_ascii(image)

    img_width = image.width

    ascii_str_len = len(ascii_str)

    ascii_art = "\n".join(ascii_str[i:i + img_width] for i in range(0, ascii_str_len, img_width))

    return ascii_art

def main():

    image_path = input("Enter the path to the image file: ")

    width = int(input("Enter the desired width of the ASCII art (default is 100): ") or 100)

    ascii_art = convert_image_to_ascii(image_path, width)

    

    if ascii_art:

        print("\nGenerated ASCII Art:\n")

        print(ascii_art)

        

        # Save the ASCII art to a text file

        output_file = "ascii_art.txt"

        with open(output_file, "w") as f:

            f.write(ascii_art)

        print(f"\nASCII art has been saved to {output_file}")

if __name__ == "__main__":

    main()