ppmtoascii
Convert PPM images to ASCII art
TLDR
Convert PPM to ASCII art (default 1x2 cell size)
$ ppmtoascii [input.ppm]
Convert with 2x4 cell size for more detail$ ppmtoascii -2x4 [input.ppm]
SYNOPSIS
ppmtoascii [-1x2|-2x4] [file]
DESCRIPTION
ppmtoascii reads a PPM image and produces a somewhat crude ASCII graphic as output, with ANSI terminal control characters so it has crude color when sent to a color text terminal. Part of the Netpbm toolkit.In addition to the resolution options, ppmtoascii supports the common Netpbm options such as -quiet to suppress informational messages.Note that ppmtoterm does a similar conversion but displays each character as a single pixel (using the same dense character for every pixel), whereas ppmtoascii combines 2 or 8 pixels into one character that roughly represents those pixels.
PARAMETERS
-1x2
Each character represents 1 pixel across by 2 pixels down. This is the default.-2x4
Each character represents 2 pixels across by 4 pixels down, giving more detail.
INSTALL
sudo apt install netpbm
sudo dnf install netpbm
sudo pacman -S netpbm
sudo apk add netpbm
sudo zypper install netpbm
brew install netpbm
nix profile install nixpkgs#netpbm
SEE ALSO
pbmtoascii(1), ppmtoterm(1), ppmtosixel(1)
