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Python pil example 'ascii art convert'
Functions in program:
def test_if_image_or_video ():
def calculate_image_size_from_video_2 ():
def calculate_image_size_from_video ():
def complete_alert_message(the_message):
def clean_up(howmuchtodelete):
def create_ascii_image():
def create_ascii_video_2():
Modules used in program:
import numpy as np
import ImageOps
import imghdr
import PIL
import Image
import aalib
import subprocess
import cv2
import sys
python ascii art convert
Python pil example: ascii art convert
#!/usr/bin/env python
# sauce: https://motiondesigntechnology.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/python-ascii-video-and-ascii-image-creator/
import sys
import cv2
import subprocess
from subprocess import call
import aalib
import Image
import PIL
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
import imghdr
import ImageOps
import numpy as np
sys.dont_write_bytecode = True
videofilename=str(sys.argv[1]).strip()
#These two variables control the resolution and font size. They are interconnected.
#img_new_magnitude
#fontsize
try:
img_new_magnitude= int (str(sys.argv[2]).strip() )
except :
img_new_magnitude=4
try:
fontsize= int (str(sys.argv[3]).strip())
except :
fontsize= 15
font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf", fontsize, encoding="unic")
def create_ascii_video_2():
#Extract the image size:
image_width, image_height =calculate_image_size_from_video ()
#Extract the number of rows and length of the string in pixels which is used for the image being
#created based on the width and height of the text.
how_many_rows, new_img_width = calculate_image_size_from_video_2 ()
vc = cv2.VideoCapture(videofilename)
saved_file_name=""
frame_rate=str (vc.get(cv2.cv.CV_CAP_PROP_FPS))
#Png file name counter
c=0
if vc.isOpened():
rval , frame = vc.read()
else:
rval = False
while rval:
rval, frame = vc.read()
#Check to see if file is a valid image. I notice the last frame of the video is an empty file at times:
try:
myimage= Image.fromarray(frame)
except (TypeError, AttributeError):
print(("cannot identify image while loop in function create_ascii_video_2", myimage))
continue
aalib_screen_width= int(image_width/25.28)*img_new_magnitude
aalib_screen_height= int(image_height/41.39)*img_new_magnitude
screen = aalib.AsciiScreen(width=aalib_screen_width, height=aalib_screen_height )
myimage= Image.fromarray(frame).convert("L").resize(screen.virtual_size)
screen.put_image((0,0), myimage)
img=Image.new("RGBA", (new_img_width, how_many_rows*fontsize),(120,20,20))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
y = 0
for lines in screen.render().splitlines():
draw.text( (0,y), lines, (255,255,0),font=font )
y = y + fontsize
imagefit = ImageOps.fit(img, (image_width, image_height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
imagefit.save(str(c)+'.png', "PNG")
c = c + 1
cv2.waitKey(1)
vc.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()
subprocess.call(["./ffmpeg/ffmpeg", "-i", "%d.png", "-r", frame_rate, "-y", "-c:v", "libx264", "-preset", "slow", "-crf", "18", "-c:a", "copy", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", "output.mkv" ])
clean_up(c)
def create_ascii_image():
myimage= Image.open(videofilename)
image_width, image_height = myimage.size
aalib_screen_width= int(image_width/24.9)*img_new_magnitude
aalib_screen_height= int(image_height/41.39)*img_new_magnitude
screen = aalib.AsciiScreen(width=aalib_screen_width, height=aalib_screen_height )
myimage= Image.open(videofilename).convert("L").resize(screen.virtual_size)
screen.put_image((0,0), myimage)
y = 0
how_many_rows = len ( screen.render().splitlines() )
new_img_width, font_size = font.getsize (screen.render().splitlines()[0])
img=Image.new("RGBA", (new_img_width, how_many_rows*fontsize),(120,20,20))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
for lines in screen.render().splitlines():
draw.text( (0,y), lines, (255,255,0),font=font )
y = y + fontsize
imagefit = ImageOps.fit(img, (image_width, image_height), Image.ANTIALIAS)
imagefit.save("ascii_photo.png", "PNG")
def clean_up(howmuchtodelete):
i=0
while i< howmuchtodelete :
subprocess.call(["rm", str(i)+".png" ])
i=i+1
def complete_alert_message(the_message):
font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf",40)
img=Image.new("RGBA", (200,70),(120,20,20))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
draw.text((5, 0),the_message,(255,255,0),font=font)
img.show()
def calculate_image_size_from_video ():
vc = cv2.VideoCapture(videofilename)
if vc.isOpened():
rval , frame = vc.read()
#Extract the image size:
try:
myimage= Image.fromarray(frame)
return myimage.size
except IOError:
print(("cannot identify image file", myimage))
else:
print(("In fucntion calculate_image_size_from_video I could not find the video frame size." ))
def calculate_image_size_from_video_2 ():
#Extract the image size:
image_width, image_height =calculate_image_size_from_video ()
vc = cv2.VideoCapture(videofilename)
if vc.isOpened():
rval , frame = vc.read()
else:
rval = False
while rval:
rval, frame = vc.read()
#Check to see if file is a valid image. I notice the last frame of the video is an empty file at times:
try:
myimage= Image.fromarray(frame)
except (TypeError, AttributeError):
print(("cannot identify image", myimage))
continue
aalib_screen_width= int(image_width/25.28)*img_new_magnitude
aalib_screen_height= int(image_height/41.39)*img_new_magnitude
screen = aalib.AsciiScreen(width=aalib_screen_width, height=aalib_screen_height )
myimage= Image.fromarray(frame).convert("L").resize(screen.virtual_size)
screen.put_image((0,0), myimage)
how_many_rows = len ( screen.render().splitlines() )
new_img_width, font_size = font.getsize (screen.render().splitlines()[0])
cv2.waitKey(1)
vc.release()
return (how_many_rows, new_img_width )
def test_if_image_or_video ():
if imghdr.what(videofilename) != None :
print(("This is a image file."))
create_ascii_image()
else:
print(("This is probably not a image."))
create_ascii_video_2()
test_if_image_or_video ()
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