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(C++) AsciiArter

 

AsciiArter is a GUI-independent class to convert images to ASCII art.

 

 

 

 

 

asciiarter.h

 

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
AsciiArter, class to convert greyscale to ASCII art
Copyright (C) 2011 Richel Bilderbeek

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppAsciiArter.htm
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#ifndef ASCIIARTER_H
#define ASCIIARTER_H
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <boost/tuple/tuple.hpp>
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
struct AsciiArter
{
  typedef std::vector<int> Pixel;
  const std::vector<std::string> ImageToAscii(
    const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
    const int width) const;

  static const std::string GetVersion();
  static const std::vector<std::string> GetVersionHistory();

  private:
  static const std::vector<char> m_gradient;
  static const std::vector<char> GetAsciiArtGradient();

  static double GetGreyness(
    const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
    const int x,
    const int y);

  static double GetGreyness(
    const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
    const int x1,
    const int x2,
    const int y);

  static double GetGreyness(
    const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
    const int x1,
    const int y1,
    const int x2,
    const int y2);

  static double GetFractionGrey(
    const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
    const int x1,
    const int y1,
    const int x2,
    const int y2);
};
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#endif // ASCIIARTER_H

 

 

 

 

 

asciiarter.cpp

 

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
AsciiArter, class to convert greyscale to ASCII art
Copyright (C) 2011 Richel Bilderbeek

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppAsciiArter.htm
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <algorithm>
#include <cassert>
#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <boost/scoped_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/numeric/conversion/cast.hpp>
#include "asciiarter.h"
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const std::vector<char> AsciiArter::m_gradient
  = AsciiArter::GetAsciiArtGradient();
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppGetAsciiArtGradient.htm
const std::vector<char> AsciiArter::GetAsciiArtGradient()
{
  std::vector<char> chars;
  chars.push_back('M');
  chars.push_back('N');
  chars.push_back('m');
  chars.push_back('d');
  chars.push_back('h');
  chars.push_back('y');
  chars.push_back('s');
  chars.push_back('o');
  chars.push_back('+');
  chars.push_back('/');
  chars.push_back(':');
  chars.push_back('-');
  chars.push_back('.');
  chars.push_back('`');
  chars.push_back(' ');
  return chars;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
double AsciiArter::GetGreyness(
  const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
  const int x,
  const int y)
{
  assert(!image.empty()
    && "Image is NULL");
  assert(x >= 0
    && "x coordinat is below zero");
  assert(y >= 0
    && "y coordinat is below zero");
  assert(y < boost::numeric_cast<int>(image.size())
    && "y coordinat is beyond image height");
  assert(x < boost::numeric_cast<int>(image[y].size())
    && "x coordinat is beyond image width");
  const double greyness = image[y][x];
  assert(greyness >= 0.0);
  assert(greyness <= 1.0);
  return greyness;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//Get a line of pixel's average greyness
double AsciiArter::GetGreyness(
  const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
  const int x1,
  const int x2,
  const int y)
{
  assert(!image.empty()
    && "Image is NULL");
  assert(x1 >= 0
    && "x1 coordinat is below zero");
  assert(x2 >= 0
    && "x2 coordinat is below zero");
  assert(y >= 0
    && "y coordinat is below zero");
  assert(y < boost::numeric_cast<int>(image.size())
    && "y coordinat is beyond image height");
  assert(x1 < x2
    && "X-coordinats must be different and ordered");
  assert(x1 < boost::numeric_cast<int>(image[y].size())
    && "x1 coordinat is beyond image width");
  assert(x2 < boost::numeric_cast<int>(image[y].size())
    && "x2 coordinat is beyond image width");
  assert(image[y].begin() + x2 != image[y].end()
    && "x2 coordinat iterator must not be beyond image width");
  const double average_greyness = std::accumulate(
    image[y].begin() + x1,
    image[y].begin() + x2,
    0.0) / boost::numeric_cast<double>(x2-x1);
  assert(average_greyness >= 0.0);
  assert(average_greyness <= 1.0);
  return average_greyness;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//Get a square of pixels' average greyness
double AsciiArter::GetGreyness(
  const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
  const int x1,
  const int y1,
  const int x2,
  const int y2)
{
  assert(y1 < y2
    && "Y-coordinats must be ordered");

  double sum = 0.0;

  for (int y=y1; y!=y2; ++y)
  {
    const double grey = GetGreyness(image,x1,x2,y);
    assert(grey >= 0 && grey < 1.0);
    sum+=grey;
  }
  const double average_greyness = sum
    / boost::numeric_cast<double>(y2 - y1);

  assert(average_greyness >=0.0 && average_greyness <= 1.0);
  return average_greyness;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//Generalizes a pixel, line or rectangle to one average greyness
double AsciiArter::GetFractionGrey(
  const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
  const int x1,
  const int y1,
  const int x2,
  const int y2)
{
  assert(x1 <= x2);
  assert(y1 <= y2);
  if (x1 == x2 && y1 == y2) return GetGreyness(image,x1,y1);
  if (y1 == y2) return GetGreyness(image,x1,x2,y1);
  if (x1 == x2)
  {
    assert(y1 < y2);
    double sum = 0;
    for (int y=y1; y!=y2; ++y)
    {
      const double g = GetGreyness(image,x1,y);
      assert(g >= 0.0);
      assert(g <= 1.0);
      sum+=g;
    }
    const double average_greyness
      = sum / boost::numeric_cast<double>(y2-y1);
    assert(average_greyness >= 0.0);
    assert(average_greyness <= 1.0);
    return average_greyness;
  }
  return GetGreyness(image,x1,y1,x2,y2);
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const std::string AsciiArter::GetVersion()
{
  return "1.0";
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const std::vector<std::string> AsciiArter::GetVersionHistory()
{
  std::vector<std::string> v;
  v.push_back("2011-03-23: Version 1.0: initial version");
  return v;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//'image' must be a y-x-ordered std::vector of grey values
//ranging from [0.0,1.0], where 0.0 denotes black and
//1.0 denotes white.
//From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppImageToAscii.htm
const std::vector<std::string> AsciiArter::ImageToAscii(
  const std::vector<std::vector<double> >& image,
  const int width) const //How many chars the ASCII image will be wide
{
  //If the number of chars is below 5,
  //the calculation would be more complicated due to a too trivial value of charWidth
  assert(width >= 5);


  //Maxy is in proportion with the bitmap
  const int image_width  = image[0].size();
  const int image_height = image.size();

  const int maxy =
    (static_cast<double>(width)
    / static_cast<double>(image_width))
    * static_cast<double>(image_height);
  assert(maxy > 0);
  const double dX = static_cast<double>(image_width)
    / static_cast<double>(width);
  const double dY = static_cast<double>(image_height)
    / static_cast<double>(maxy);
  assert(dX > 0.0);
  assert(dY > 0.0);

  std::vector<std::string> v;

  for (int y=0; y!=maxy; ++y)
  {
    std::string s;
    for (int x=0; x!=width; ++x)
    {
      const int x1 = std::min(
        static_cast<double>(x) * dX,
        image_width  - 1.0) + 0.5;
      const int y1 = std::min(
        static_cast<double>(y) * dY,
        image_height - 1.0) + 0.5;
      const int x2 = std::min(
        (static_cast<double>(x) * dX) + dX,
        image_width  - 1.0) + 0.5;
      const int y2 = std::min(
        (static_cast<double>(y) * dY) + dY,
        image_height - 1.0) + 0.5;
      assert(x1 >= 0);
      assert(x2 >= 0);
      assert(y1 >= 0);
      assert(y2 >= 0);
      assert(x1 < image_width);
      assert(x2 < image_width);
      assert(y1 < image_height);
      assert(y2 < image_height);

      const double f = GetFractionGrey(image,x1,y1,x2,y2);
      assert(f >= 0.0 && f <= 1.0);
      const int i
        = boost::numeric_cast<int>(
          f * boost::numeric_cast<double>(m_gradient.size() - 1));
      assert(i >= 0);
      assert(i < boost::numeric_cast<int>(m_gradient.size()));
      const char c = m_gradient[i];
      s+=c;
    }
    v.push_back(s);
  }
  return v;
}
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

 

 

 

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