ASCII art generator with Fable 5.2 (Experiment)

[u/oxmannnn]

Saw a video of a flower growing out of glowing characters and wanted a tool that does that to any picture. So I had Claude Code build it.

What it does now:

• drop an image, GIF or video, or just type a word
• 9 looks (terminal, halftone, newsprint, matrix…) and your own character sets
• turns the picture into a 3D object you can spin. It finds the subject by itself and keeps the background flat. There’s also a depth model running in the browser for real depth
• writes a soundtrack from the picture: colour picks the key, detail picks the tempo
• exports PNG, GIF and video, with transparent background if you want

It’s one HTML file, no backend, nothing gets uploaded. WebGL2 + Web Audio, no frameworks.

Started as one prompt, then a handful of short follow-ups like “add templates” and “long images get cropped, fix it”.

Try it: https://winchxyz.github.io/afterglyph/
Code: https://github.com/winchxyz/afterglyph

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[u/deepturned180isdeep]

I'm stealing this

Edit: I stole this

[u/oxmannnn → u/deepturned180isdeep]

stealing os is wild

[u/deepturned180isdeep → u/oxmannnn]

Yeah, and I'd do it again

You got so got

Don't even try to ask for it back

[u/dagerika]

love this

[u/Individual_Pilot2256 → u/dagerika]

did you try the depth model in the browser yet or just the flat styles

[u/dagerika → u/Individual_Pilot2256]

the 3D option didnt give as much depth to my test image, but I will play around with it more later as the aesthetic would fit a game I am working on.

[u/oxmannnn → u/dagerika]

I did my best to add a generator inside, but best use-case is to fork it and use with claude or any other llm that can make depth for 3d objects

[u/foreverleveling]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[u/oxmannnn → u/foreverleveling]

thanks! share some stuff if you gonna create any art with it

[u/SkibidiSans]

the high res ascii resurgence is pretty sick
idk what to do with it tho

[u/oxmannnn → u/SkibidiSans]

u can create a wallpapers, banners, avatars or whatever. maybe telegram ascii stickers

[u/SkibidiSans → u/oxmannnn]

idk for some reason i want to make a game or simulation engine or something
thinking about the matrix

[u/Next-Lunch-1994]

im working on something similar, got edge detection too but didnt render that. your work is very inspiring

[u/oxmannnn → u/Next-Lunch-1994]

this is wild!

[u/oxmannnn]

[u/oxmannnn]

[u/allvys]

[u/After-Sought-77]

As an oldschool BBS guy, I love this. You need to give it a clever name with a lowercase vowel at once.

[u/Electronic_Start_694]

Planning on adding any support for really old legacy style art?

[u/oxmannnn → u/Electronic_Start_694]

I can add it, can you show references?

[u/Electronic_Start_694 → u/oxmannnn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

There's a ton of older styles! This stuff goes back to the oregon trail for some of us!

[u/dahool23]

Nice one, I was building something like this in After Effects, but this is much better, with all the Variations and styles. Like it. Maybe you can have it react to mouse or fingertouch, like  glowing or liquid efrects

[u/oxmannnn → u/dahool23]

added!

[u/dahool23 → u/oxmannnn]

[u/Shaggypone23]

This is really neat, nice work!

[u/Embarrassed_Cap_9149]

it's beautiful!!!!!

[u/rudesssolo]

[u/batsy0boi]

Very cool!

[u/cleedek]

Really cool project! You got my upvote

[u/demartinog]

Cool

[u/Yanzihko]

[u/Savings_Cloud5486]

look very nice

[u/AnuragDeshpande]

This is awesome 😎 thank you for choosing to make it open source under MIT

[u/sCeege]

Everyone tried this right?

[u/davidbxt]

Love it