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txtcam — webcam for your terminal!

7 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2013-11-25 · latest 2016-05-21

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  1. Ok yeah wow, hiptext's output looks pretty fantastic. :) I'm using my own text webcam thing: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam .. not too fancy, just using greyscale with some shading characters to do some basic "dithering". Also, if…
    comment by dhotson · 2016-05-21 · in Show HN: Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII
  2. …mode and unicode halftone characters for "dithering" between the foreground/background colors. https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam Another thing I'd like to try to get a bit more resolution is to perhaps use the braille character set in…
    comment by dhotson · 2015-02-09 · in Show HN: A Simple terminal-based video chat – renders in ASCII and has audio
  3. Very cool! I made something similar that runs in your terminal: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam
    comment by dhotson · 2014-11-30 · in ASCII Cam
  4. Neat! I made something similar for OSX: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam / Screencast: https://asciinema.org/a/7301 I used halftone characters to do "dithering". Someone forked and updated it to work with iTerm2's 24 bit colour support:…
    comment by dhotson · 2014-04-24 · in Show HN: NCurses Terminal Webcam
  5. See also: https://github.com/dhotson/txtcam
    comment by paulannesley · 2014-04-24 · in Show HN: NCurses Terminal Webcam