Your photo, in ASCII.
Drop a picture, move the controls, and the same pipeline the shader runs draws it back in glyphs. Nothing is stored: the image goes in, the render comes out.
Start from one of these
Photos that take the effect well, with the settings that got them there. Pick one and the controls follow; then make it yours.
Parked classics
vivid · attenuation 0.7
Photo by Lilibeth Bustos Linares on Unsplash. Opens in a new tab