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Realtime webcam to Ascii converter in Flex2/AS3

January 19th, 2007

So I’ve been spending some downtime converting some old projects to AS3, one of which is an old Webcam to Ascii experiment.

While it worked OK in AS2 it was pretty lacking in the speed department, meaning you couldn’t convert at any great resolution (about 20*20 ascii ‘pixels’ was tops). In AS3 however it’s a whole different story, as this demo shows …

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(click the image to launch, latest FP9 & a webcam required, right click to go fullscreen)

Oh yeah, cheers Tink for the Flex help, it’s clever this Flex stuff, init?!

oldskool73 Adobe/Flash/Flex

  1. April 25th, 2007 at 22:09 | #1

    i have been trying this for ever.
    this is AWESOME!
    are you planning on posting the source?

    i want to convert videos like this, not
    just do streaming webcams…

  2. July 27th, 2007 at 12:02 | #2

    hey nice work.
    i have also done a ascii webcam app.. but you did it first.
    have a look at some of my other work :)

    http://snipurl.com/marcus/projects.html

  3. February 7th, 2008 at 21:43 | #3

    Shockingly, awesomely good :)

  4. bugiam
    June 10th, 2008 at 08:19 | #4

    Very impressive! Good work!

  5. September 9th, 2008 at 13:36 | #5

    just wondering if you where going to share the source code for eth ascii web cam, I have the old version from ages ago, but thisone is much more stable by the looks of it

  6. June 28th, 2009 at 21:03 | #6

    DOesnt work on my IMAC
    F.P. 10,0,12,36 installed

  7. June 29th, 2009 at 07:11 | #7

    @swider – works fine here, may just have to go into the flash preferences and select the correct camera?

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