Character representation of grey scale images linked on Astounding ASCII Art

Paul Bourke provides a standard “character ramp” for photo to greyscale conversion, as well as a more convincing, shorter sequence. Discovering Paul’s ordering of characters for creating ASCII art was the starting point for writing the asciiArt script in 42 Astounding Scripts. Because different fonts will have different densities, I’ve since written a script that takes a font and puts its characters in order; that’s what I ended up using in the script as it appears in the book.

And I’ll have more about the densitySort script later if you want to use fonts other than Menlo. Stay tuned!