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# ASCII Engine

ASCII art generator

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## Summary

ASCII Engine: ASCII art generator Drop in a photo or a video and watch it redraw itself as characters, live on a canvas, at whatever density you choose.

## Description

**ASCII Engine: ASCII art generator**

Drop in a photo or a video and watch it redraw itself as characters, live on a canvas, at whatever density you choose.

**What you get**

10 presets: Terminal · Amber CRT · Blueprint · Neon · Newsprint · Marble · Bitmap · Editorial · True Color · Typographic

11 character sets: Standard · Detailed · Blocks · Bars · Code · Hex · Braille · Binary · Katakana · Minimal · Custom

3 mapping modes: Brightness · Random · Text Flow, which runs your own words through the picture

4 colour modes: Solid · Duotone · Gradient · Source, which tints every glyph with the colour underneath it

8 motion modes: Scan · Flicker · Rain · Wave · Dissolve · Typewrite · Glitch · Drift

6 cursor effects: Reveal · Spotlight · Ripple · Warp · Scatter · Repel

Image or video source, cover or contain, and 9 crop positions

Fidelity controls that most ASCII tools skip: progressive downscaling, gamma, sharpen, and edge detail that draws outlines as directional strokes

Full colour control, bloom, scanlines, invert, cell size, and any monospace font you like

An optional in-canvas control panel your visitors can play with, including uploading their own image or video

Frame pacing adapts to grid density on dense settings, and the editor renders one crisp static frame instead of running a loop

Works behind a hero, inside a card, as a full-bleed banner, or as an interactive section your visitors can drive themselves.

What's included:

Remix link to the Component.

Free updates. The remix link always carries the latest version

Email support: [support@premshandilya.com](mailto:support@premshandilya.com)

License: Single-user license. Use ASCII Engine in unlimited personal and commercial Framer projects, including client work. Reselling, redistributing, or repackaging the component or its source code as your own asset is not permitted.

Refunds: This is a non-refundable digital product, so try the live demo before purchasing. If anything doesn't work as shown, email me and I'll fix it fast.

## Rank history [How rankings work →](/terms#rankings)

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## Details

- **Author**: Prem Shandilya
- **Price**: $12.00
- **Published**: 2026-07-29
- **Updated**: 2026-08-22
- **Added**: 2026-07-29
- **Categories**: Effects

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