ASCII-art all the things. Transforms all UIImageView's into ASCII art and replaces all fonts with Courier. Built for the Artsy.net March 2014 Hackathon. Combine with DRKonamiCode and you're in business!

Demo

Portrait of a Lady, Rogier Van Der Weyden, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., via Artsy.net

Usage

Replace All Images and Fonts

#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIFont+ASCII.h>
#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIImageView+ASCII.h>

- (void)toggle
{
    UIFont.ascii = ! UIFont.ascii;
    UIImageView.ascii = ! UIImageView.ascii;
}

ASCII Art API

See UIImage+ASCII.h.

#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIImage+ASCII.h>

UIImage *image = ...

// ASCII NSString representation of the image
NSString *asciiText = image.asciiText;

// ASCII UIImage representation of the image
UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Courier New" size:12.0];
UIColor *color = [UIColor yellowColor];
UIImage *asciiImage = [image asciiImage:font color:color];

Combine with Konami Code

Toggle swizzling with Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A gestures. See this gist.

Installation

Testing

Try it out with CocoaPods also,

pod try "ARASCIISwizzle"

Credits

• Creating ASCII Art from UIImage
• Creating a UIImage from Text
• Resizing a UIImage

Copyright & License

ARASCIISwizzle is (c) Artsy Inc., available under the MIT license.

See the LICENSE file for more information.