ascii java_ASCII Art Java example

A funny Java example to create an ASCII art graphic. The concept is simple, get the image’s rgb color in “integer mode”, later, replace the color’s integer with ascii text.

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ASCIIArtService.java

package com.mkyong.service;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;

import java.io.IOException;

public class ASCIIArtService {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

int width = 100;

int height = 30;

//BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("/Users/mkyong/Desktop/logo.jpg"));

BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);

Graphics g = image.getGraphics();

g.setFont(new Font("SansSerif", Font.BOLD, 24));

Graphics2D graphics = (Graphics2D) g;

graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,

RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);

graphics.drawString("JAVA", 10, 20);

//save this image

//ImageIO.write(image, "png", new File("/users/mkyong/ascii-art.png"));

for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {

sb.append(image.getRGB(x, y) == -16777216 ? " " : "$");

if (sb.toString().trim().isEmpty()) {

continue;

System.out.println(sb);

Output

$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$

$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$

$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$

$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$

$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$

$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$

$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$

$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$

$$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$

$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$

$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$$

What is -1677216?

The color code, in this case all colors "-1677216" are replaced with empty " ". This is the idea to generate the ASCII art graphic. Try load an image, and print out the rgb color, you will noticed that different color has different code.

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