Open-Sourced realsense-ascii: Live Depth-Camera ASCII Art With Full Setup Guide
chrismatthieu · x · 2026-10-13
chrismatthieu open-sourced realsense-ascii: live ASCII art from an Intel RealSense depth camera where closer surfaces draw denser, brighter characters. On Mac it must run as root (sudo -E ./run); ./run --demo plays a built-in scene without a camera; supports themes like --theme ocean --relief. Requires Python 3.9+, numpy, librealsense bindings, and a USB 3 port.
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