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Textify
// via http://textify.it/
/**
* @author Hakim El Hattab
*
* Recreates bitmap images using HTML text. Images are
* drawn onto a canvas element so that the pixels can
* be read. Letters, with colors matching the image pixels,
* are then placed at random locations on the screen.
*/
var Textify = function () {
function q() {
b.monochrome = !1;
b.maintainAlpha = !1;
b.imageURL = r;
b.characterSet = A;
b.characterLimit = 15E3;
b.characterScale = 1;
b.characterFontFamily = "Arial";
b.characterFontWeight = "normal";
b.image = function () {
j.click()
};
b.redraw = function () {
b.imageURL !== c.src && b.imageURL !== r && b.imageURL.length > 4 ? u(b.imageURL) : s ? t() : alert("You'll need to load an image first.")
};
b.viewSource = function () {
s ? v() : alert("You'll need to load an image first.")
};
var a = new DAT.GUI;
a.add(b, "image").name("Browse For Image");
a.add(b, "monochrome").name("Black & White");
a.add(b, "maintainAlpha").name("Maintain Alpha");
a.add(b, "characterSet").name("Character Set");
a.add(b, "characterLimit").name("Character Quantity").min(1E3).max(1E5).step(500);
a.add(b, "characterScale").name("Font Scale").min(0.1).max(5).step(0.1);
a.add(b, "characterFontFamily").name("Font Family").options("Arial", "Helvetica", "Times New Roman", "Lucida Grande", "Comic Sans MS", "monospace");
a.add(b, "characterFontWeight").name("Font Weight").options("normal", "bold", "bolder");
a.add(b, "viewSource").name("View source");
var d = a.add(b, "redraw").name("APPLY SETTINGS");
d.domElement.style.height = "32px";
d.domElement.style.backgroundColor = "rgb(10,150,150)";
d.domElement.style.fontSize = "14px";
a.domElement.style.position = "absolute";
a.domElement.style.top = "42px";
a.domElement.style.right = "-15px";
document.querySelector(".guidat-controllers").style.height = "auto"
}
function w() {
f.style.left = (window.innerWidth - g) * 0.5 + "px";
f.style.top = (window.innerHeight - e) * 0.5 + "px"
}
function B() {
console.log(this.files[0]);
this.files.length && x(this.files[0])
}
function C(a) {
a.stopPropagation();
a.preventDefault();
a = a.dataTransfer.files;
a.length && x(a[0])
}
function x(a) {
var b = new FileReader;
b.onloadend = D;
b.readAsDataURL(a)
}
function D(a) {
a.target.result.match(/^data:image/) ? (b.imageURL = r, c.src = a.target.result, setTimeout(t, 100)) : alert("Unexpected file format, dude.")
}
function u(a) {
c.onload = function () {
s = !0;
t()
};
c.onerror = function () {
alert("Failed to load image with URL " + c.src)
};
c.src = a
}
function t() {
g = c.width;
e = c.height;
var a = window.innerWidth * 0.8,
d = window.innerHeight * 0.8,
h = 1;
if (g > a || e > d) h = Math.min(a / g, d / e), g = Math.floor(g * h), e = Math.floor(e * h);
f.innerHTML = "";
f.style.width = g + "px";
f.style.height = e + "px";
f.style.fontFamily = b.characterFontFamily;
f.style.fontWeight = b.characterFontWeight;
n.width = g;
n.height = e;
l.save();
l.scale(h, h);
l.drawImage(c, 0, 0, c.width, c.height);
l.restore();
m = l.getImageData(0, 0, g, e).data;
y = m.length / 4;
o = [];
w();
z()
}
function z() {
for (var a = "", d = 0; d < E; d++) {
var h = Math.floor(Math.random() * y),
c = h * 4,
e = Math.floor(h / g),
h = Math.round((h / g - e) * g),
j = Math.round(10 + Math.random() * 10) * b.characterScale;
h -= j / 2;
e -= j / 2;
var i = {
r: m[c],
g: m[c + 1],
b: m[c + 2],
a: (0.3 + Math.random() * 0.7).toFixed(2)
};
if (b.maintainAlpha) i.a = m[c + 3];
if (b.monochrome) i.r = i.g = i.b = Math.round((i.r + i.g + i.b) / 3);
c = '<p style="left: ' + h + "px; top: " + e + "px; font-size: " + j + "px; color: rgba(" + i.r + "," + i.g + "," + i.b + ", " + i.a + ')">' + b.characterSet[Math.floor(Math.random() * b.characterSet.length)] + "</p>";
a += c;
o.push(c)
}
d = document.createElement("div");
d.style.position = "fixed";
d.innerHTML = a;
f.appendChild(d);
o.length < b.characterLimit ? (k.style.visibility = "visible", p.style.width = Math.min(o.length / b.characterLimit, 1) * k.offsetWidth + "px", requestAnimFrame(z)) : (k.style.visibility = "hidden", p.style.width = "0px")
}
function v() {
var a = window.open("", "Textify Source", "height=400, width=700, toolbar=no, scrollbars=no, menubar=no"),
d = a.document.createElement("textarea");
d.setAttribute("cols", "92");
d.setAttribute("rows", "27");
d.innerHTML += "<style>\n";
d.innerHTML += "\t.textify-output p {\n";
d.innerHTML += "\t\tposition: absolute;\n";
d.innerHTML += "\t}\n";
d.innerHTML += "</style>\n";
var c = a.document.createElement("div");
c.setAttribute("class", "textify-output");
c.style.fontFamily = b.characterFontFamily;
c.style.fontWeight = b.characterFontWeight;
c.innerHTML += f.innerHTML;
d.innerHTML += c.outerHTML;
a.document.write(d.outerHTML)
}
var E = 1E3,
r = "(Drag and drop works too)",
A = "@%#",
n, l, k, p, j, f, c, m, y, o, g = 1,
e = 1,
s = !1,
b = {};
return {
initialize: function () {
c = document.createElement("img");
n = document.createElement("canvas");
l = n.getContext("2d");
f = document.createElement("div");
f.setAttribute("class", "textify-output");
k = document.createElement("div");
k.setAttribute("class", "textify-progress");
p = document.createElement("div");
k.appendChild(p);
progressText = document.createElement("p");
k.appendChild(progressText);
j = document.createElement("input");
j.setAttribute("type", "file");
j.style.visibility = "hidden";
document.body.appendChild(j);
document.body.appendChild(f);
document.body.appendChild(k);
window.addEventListener("resize", w, !1);
document.addEventListener("dragover", function (a) {
a.preventDefault()
}, !1);
document.addEventListener("dragenter", function (a) {
a.preventDefault()
}, !1);
document.addEventListener("dragexit", function (a) {
a.preventDefault()
}, !1);
document.addEventListener("drop", C, !1);
j.addEventListener("change", B, !1);
q();
u("image3.jpg")
},
viewSource: v
}
}();
window.requestAnimFrame = function () {
return window.requestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.oRequestAnimationFrame || window.msRequestAnimationFrame ||
function (q) {
window.setTimeout(q, 1E3 / 60)
}
}();
Textify.initialize();
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