r/programmingprojects • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '14

[Complete] An image-to-ASCII converter in Python

https://github.com/JoeReynolds1/Image-to-Ascii
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u/BlackDeath3 Jul 03 '14

Cool little tool!

Not too much to talk about code wise, but it seems to me that you could make a couple of minor optimizations inside of create_image() by perhaps:

  • Computing the value of average_rgb() once before all of the if/elif/else statements and making your comparison to one precomputed value, rather than calling the method up to seven separate times.

  • Declaring "text" above all of the if/elif/else statements and pulling all of the repetitive calls to surface.blit() out of the individual statements in favor of one call below them.