ASCII-IMAGE-CONVERTER

CLI fork of TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter that adds Nomadnet Micron (.mu) output, intended for use over the Reticulum mesh-network stack. Renders JPEG, PNG, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, and GIF as ASCII or braille art with optional ANSI colour.

• > Adds .mu (Nomadnet Micron) output to the upstream encoder set
• > ASCII, braille, and full-block colour output modes
• > Designed for low-bandwidth, off-grid mesh delivery

> why the fork

Upstream TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter is a well-built Go CLI that renders images as ASCII or braille art. This fork adds a Nomadnet Micron (.mu) output target so the same images can be served over Reticulum mesh nodes via NomadNet — off-grid, low-bandwidth, no clearnet dependency.

> usage

# clone + build
git clone https://bitbucket.org/novaprospekt/ascii-image_mu-converter
cd ascii-image_mu-converter && go build .

# render a PNG as Nomadnet Micron
ascii-image-converter sigil.png --format=mu > sigil.mu

# braille mode, 80 cols, color
ascii-image-converter sigil.png --braille --width=80 -C

> credit

All ASCII / braille rendering credit goes to Zoraiz Hassan; the fork only adds Micron and a handful of mesh-friendly defaults. Licensed Apache 2.0, same as upstream.