# vansh-nagar/ascii-studio

Turn Videos into
ASCII Frames - real ascii frames (character-based frames that run smoothly in sequence)

Repository: https://github.com/vansh-nagar/ascii-studio
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ascii-studio
Homepage: https://asciistudio.space
Language: TypeScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-07-16T08:15:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 56/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 35, longevity 11
- inputs: {"age_days": 167, "days_push": 48, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1221, forks 56 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:02.033804+00:00)

## What it is
ASCII Studio is a browser-based tool that converts videos into real-time ASCII character-based animations. It offers customizable character sets, density, contrast, and appearance controls, and can export animations as React components with embedded ASCII frames.

## Use cases
- convert videos into ascii animations
- generate ascii art from video frames
- create character-based animations in the browser
- export ascii animations as react components
- customize ascii character sets and density for video conversion
- make retro terminal-style video effects

## When to choose
- you want to turn a video into a smooth ascii animation without installing anything
- you need browser-based ascii conversion with live preview and appearance controls
- you want to embed ascii animations directly into a react app

## When to avoid
- you need a command-line or batch video processing pipeline
- you require a permissively licensed dependency - the repo has no license file
- you need high-fidelity video transcoding rather than ascii stylization

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, image-processing, graphics, developer-tools
- domain: media, web-development, graphics
- platform: browser
- tags: ascii-art, video-to-ascii, animation, react-component-export, browser-based, web, typescript

## Member repositories
- vansh-nagar/ascii-studio (main) score 56

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.033804+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:15:53.921578+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vansh-nagar/ascii-studio (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:02.033804+00:00, sha 49f26c8ad177)
  - homepage: https://asciistudio.space (fetched 2026-08-29T12:24:11.549374+00:00, sha 8acc2b8ba9eb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.