Problem 1199. ASCII art
Convert a grayscale image to ASCII
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Inputs:
- img: Grayscale image (a matrix of values between 0 and 1)
- chars: Char array of valid ascii characters
- bitmap: Grayscale images of each valid ascii character (3d matrix with size Height x Width x N, and with values between 0 and 1)
Output:
Bin the original image img into segments of size Height x Width, and find the best matching ascii character for each bin (minimizing the euclidean distance between each bin grayscale values and the matching character grayscale values).
Return the fitted ascii image: a matrix of characters in chars that, when displayed, approximates the image img.
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note: for an appropriate display the display font needs to be monospace. If a char image does not fit within the command window, you may try the following to display it on a figure:
fontsize=6; figure; uicontrol('style','text','units','norm','position',[0,0,1,1],'string',str,... 'fontweight','bold','horizontalalignment','left','fontname','monospaced',... 'foregroundcolor','k','backgroundcolor','w','fontsize',fontsize);
and edit the value fontsize so that the image fits within the figure.
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