NAME

Image::Caa - Colored ASCII Art

SYNOPSIS

use Image::Caa;
use Image::Magick;


# load an image

my $image = Image::Magick->new;
$image->Read('sunset.jpg');


# display it as ASCII Art

my $caa = new Image::Caa();
$caa->draw_bitmap(0, 0, 40, 20, $image);


# some fancy options

my $caa = new Image::Caa(
  driver => 'DriverANSI',
  dither => 'DitherOrdered8',
  black_bg => 1,
);
$caa->draw_bitmap(0, 0, 40, 20, $image);

DESCRIPTION

This module outputs Image::Magick image objects as ASCII Art, using a variety of output dithering modes and output drivers (currently supported is a plain old ANSI termical output driver and a curses driver).

METHODS

new( opt => 'value', ... )

Returns a new Image::Caa object. The options are as follows:

• driver

  Output driver. Valid values are:

  • DriverANSI (default)

  • DriverCurses

• dither

  Dithering mode. Valid values are:

  • DitherNone (default)

  • DitherOrdered2

  • DitherOrdered4

  • DitherOrdered8

  • DitherRandom

• black_bg

  Set to 1 to enable black background mode. By default, we use colored backgrounds to allow 256 colors (16 foreground x 16 background)

• window

  Used only by the Curses output driver. Indicates the Curses window to write output into.

draw_bitmap($x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, $image)

Draws the image $image within the box bounded by ($x1,$y1)-($x2,$y2). Note that the default (ANSI) output driver ignores the origin position as uses only the absolute box size.

EXTENDING

Both the dithering and driver backends are plugable and fairly easy to create - just create modules in the Image::Caa::* namespace. Dither modules need to implement the new(), init($line), get() and increment() methods. Driver modules need to implement the new(), init(), set_color($fg, $bg), putchar($x, $y, $char) and fini() methods. Look at the existing modules for guidance.

AUTHORS

Copyright (C) 2006, Cal Henderson <cal@iamcal.com>

This library is based on libcaca's bitmap.c

libcaca is Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>

libcaca is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Publice License

SEE ALSO

Image::Magick, http://sam.zoy.org/libcaca/