Show HN: Unicasso – image to ASCII art via optimization with CLIP
By imko_ · 2026-08-13 · 3 points · 0 comments
https://github.com/jakobrees/unicasso
Hi HN! This is a repo to convert images into ASCII and ANSI art. The general technical approach is to use CLIP as a judge on the ASCII art (akin to CLIPasso, for those familiar), while trying to make the glyph space differentiable in a sensible way. I've tested it on macOS and L…
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