I am passionate about generative art and enjoy creating unusual projects with p5.js. I’m also passionate about Flutter, and I had the idea to combin

ASCII camera effect with Flutter

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2024-10-18 07:00:04

I am passionate about generative art and enjoy creating unusual projects with p5.js. I’m also passionate about Flutter, and I had the idea to combine both directions. Especially since I haven’t found similar projects that include an ASCII camera, which made the task even more interesting to realise.

Honestly, I don’t have any specific goal as to why I want this effect, I just like it. Let’s go step by step through how to do it. If you like generative art and flutter as much as I do, I recommend checking out my package for creating interesting backgrounds for your applications.

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). The term is also loosely used to refer to text-based visual art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, as on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.

I decided to look into this issue a little further and found Ian Parberry’s excellent articles on ASCII: ASCII Art on a Pixel Shader and Color ASCII Art. You can see all the articles on this topic at the link.