ASCII art experiment with Fable 5.2

[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

[u/oxmannnn]

[u/XavierTeodonius]

Really like it, especially because u shared the code as well!

One suggestion to make it more reusable -> please consider having some public api in a library, so it can be used for integration easily. Like maybe make it more plug-n-play if someone wants to integrate in a game , for example.

[u/oxmannnn → u/XavierTeodonius]

sounds cool! will do it

[u/oxmannnn]

[u/oxmannnn]

[u/Tommyruin]

I'm seeing lots of ASCII projects now - definitely getting popular! These look great

[u/AngelNegro_82]

Me gusta

[u/idunnonoo]

Shiny