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# AsciiCam
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Ascii video output from webcam in terminal.
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<img src="assets/demo.gif" width="325">
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## Build and Run
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```
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git clone https://github.com/Harshit-Dhanwalkar/AsciiCam.git
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cd AsciiCam/C/
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make
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cd build/
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./webcam_ascii --help
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```
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## TODO
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- [x] Adjust width and height of capturing frame.
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- [x] A producer/consumer thread splitting.
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- [ ] Custom ASCII charset via config file
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- [x] Brightness/contrast adjustment.
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- [x] Reverse video - Invert brightness $\rightarrow$ charset mapping
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- [x] Color output - Extract U/V channels, map to ANSI/RGB codes
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- [ ] Add feature to record and save it in popular video formats like `.mp4`, `.mov` and `.gif`.
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- [x] Dithering effect.
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- [x] Sobel edge detection (kernel convolution). Algorithm reference: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/HIPR2/sobel.htm
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- [ ] Migrate from C to Cpp.
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