Glypha — Image and video to ASCII art, braille and PETSCII
Colour braille · 220 columns
01 What it is
Every pixel becomes a letter.
Glypha picks, for each cell of the grid, the character that best matches the image — by density, and by shape: a diagonal lands on a “/”, a curve on a “(”. Edges can be drawn alone, like a line drawing.
Period palettes (ANSI, C64, CGA, Game Boy, teletext), Matrix, glitch and typewriter animations, and exports that stay text: TXT, HTML, ANSI for the terminal.
61styles
19character sets
5modes
6animations
02 What it can do
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Colour per cell
Two colours per cell and a shape mask: from afar a photo, up close, blocks.
Chafa colour · 180 columns
02
Braille
Eight dots per character: the finest set, almost a halftone.
Colour braille · 220 columns
High contrast · 110 columns
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Shape
Characters follow the edges: the movement reads in the slashes.
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Animation
Matrix rain, glitch, decoding, wave: the image comes alive, as video or a loop.
Matrix · 110 columns
02.1 How to get there
Videos recorded before the renaming: at the top of the screen, Glypha is still called ASCII. What’s new →
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Jellyfish, in braille
From forty to two hundred and twenty columns: the jellyfish gets lost, then appears.
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The dancer, by shape
Density or shape: two ways of choosing a character, and what that changes.
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