Asciidream

Asciidream turns photos and algorithms into ASCII / Unicode art, in one portable Windows .exe. No install, no Python, no admin rights. Offline, deterministic, no telemetry, no accounts.

FEATURES

• Image to ASCII: drag in a PNG/JPG/GIF. Density, edge-detect and dithered modes, with optional sampling of the original colours.
• 35+ generators: Perlin, Simplex, Worley, fBm, domain warp, flow fields, Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, L-systems, strange attractors, Game of Life, Wolfram CA, Brian's Brain, Truchet tiles, Voronoi, mazes, phyllotaxis, spirographs, DLA, slime mold (Physarum), banner text, mandala and mosaic.
• Layers with 17 blend modes, per-layer opacity, drag to reorder.
• Animation: toggle Animate on any layer and every numeric parameter moves on its own sine wave.
• Real animated GIF export (built-in GIF89a encoder), plus TXT, ANSI true-colour, SVG, PNG, standalone HTML, Markdown, JSON and .glyph project files.
• Keyboard-first: Ctrl+K command palette, undo for everything, scrub-drag inputs, and a built-in "What's next?" coach.
• Deterministic: every generator uses a seeded RNG, so a saved project re-renders the same on any machine.

Windows 10/11 x64. Open source (MIT): https://github.com/aivrar/asciidream

Built by aivrar with AI-assisted coding.