ga-ascii-art

A pet project, does not really work for now.

Made in Go, using Evolutionary optimization library for Go

What is this

The goal of this code is to use Genetic Algorithms to create ASCII art images from a source png file. In GA terms, the genome is a grid of characters mutated randomly, and the fitness evaluation is done comparing the rendered text with the goal image.

Maybe it could work with a good combination of parameters for the genetic algorithm. For now it can only produce satisfactory results with the --simple flag and small images.

Usage:
  main [OPTIONS]

This command reads ./image.png and tries to create ASCII representation using Genetic Algorithms

Application Options:
  -f, --file=   Path to the input .png image (default: ./image.png)
  -s, --simple  Uses # and ' ' instead of any character

Help Options:
  -h, --help    Show this help message

$ go run main.go -s -f test-img/halfpounds-small.png