Image to ASCII art project

Projects/2-Intermediate/asciiart.md

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+# ASCII Art Generator
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+Tier 2 - Intermediate
+
+Create an application that converts images (JPEG format) to ASCII art. Each JPEG image, or any raster image format stores a basically a set of pixels, map the pixels rgb values to brightness value. Then map the brightness value to an ASCII character to make an image into ASCII art.
+
+You can use a library to read the images. A few suggestions are Pillow, MiniMagick, CamanJS and ImageMagick.
+
+## User Stories
+
+[] Read an image to rgb pixel values and convert to ASCII art.
+[] Modify image and art such that it does not take too much space. (Hint: Shrink the original image before conversion)
+[] Implement better brightness mapping using some knowledge of our vision.
+
+## Bonus features
+
+[] Convert the ASCII art to ASCII art with colors. Add themes for color sets.
+[] Add toggle for invert colors feature.
+[] Print images from the webcam.
+
+## Useful links and resources
+
+Robert Heaton's guided project on the topic ![ASCII Art](https://robertheaton.com/2018/06/12/programming-projects-for-advanced-beginners-ascii-art/)
+
+## Example Projects
+
+![ASCII Art Generate](https://gist.github.com/robert/b0b14b1fd4a5feb2b45ab3ce049f5707)