Image to ASCII GIF

Plain ASCII art loses a lot of detail — there are too few characters to convey every shade. This tool turns an image into an animated ASCII GIF: each frame corrects the error left by the previous ones (temporal error diffusion), so your eye averages the frames and sees far more detail than in any static ASCII art. The result comes out strikingly close to the original. It all runs right in your browser — just upload an image and get a GIF back.

How it works — in the post →