I want to make a program, where the user enters their name and the program generates an ascii picture of their name. Is it possible to do that without using 3rd party tools? What I came up with was to create each letter in the alphabet manually and then convert the string into a char array. Then return each image that corresponds with the letter. Is there a better or more efficent way of doing this?
Thanks.
You can write text to a bitmap in any font you want and scan the bitmap to produce the ASCII art. You can even use anti-aliasing for effect. ;)
The last time I did this was about tens years ago. ;)
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(144, 32, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics g = image.getGraphics();
g.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 24));
Graphics2D graphics = (Graphics2D) g;
graphics.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
graphics.drawString("Hello World!", 6, 24);
ImageIO.write(image, "png", new File("text.png"));
for (int y = 0; y < 32; y++) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int x = 0; x < 144; x++)
sb.append(image.getRGB(x, y) == -16777216 ? " " : image.getRGB(x, y) == -1 ? "#" : "*");
if (sb.toString().trim().isEmpty()) continue;
System.out.println(sb);
}
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This problem is solved in four steps.
- Create an ascii art representation (as a 2d rectangular array) for each letter you intend to support. Perhaps these are loaded from a resource file.
- Parse the input string into character tokens and acquire the art for those characters.
- Make a rectangular array that is as tall as the tallest token, as wide as the sum of each tokens' width (plus space between characters if not included in the images themselves).
- Copy each one into the giant array at the correct location.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7098972/ascii-art-java