ASCII-art all the things. Transforms all UIImageView's into ASCII art and replaces all fonts with Courier. Built for the Artsy.net March 2014 Hackathon. Combine with DRKonamiCode and you're in business!

Portrait of a Lady, Rogier Van Der Weyden, courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., via Artsy.net

#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIFont+ASCII.h>
#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIImageView+ASCII.h>
- (void)toggle
{
    UIFont.ascii = ! UIFont.ascii;
    UIImageView.ascii = ! UIImageView.ascii;
}

See UIImage+ASCII.h.

#import <ARASCIISwizzle/UIImage+ASCII.h>
UIImage *image = ...
// ASCII NSString representation of the image
NSString *asciiText = image.asciiText;
// ASCII UIImage representation of the image
UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Courier New" size:12.0];
UIColor *color = [UIColor yellowColor];
UIImage *asciiImage = [image asciiImage:font color:color];

Toggle swizzling with Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A gestures. See this gist.

ARASCIISwizzle is available through CocoaPods, to install it simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "ARASCIISwizzle"

Try it out with CocoaPods also,

pod try "ARASCIISwizzle"

• Creating ASCII Art from UIImage
• Creating a UIImage from Text
• Resizing a UIImage

ARASCIISwizzle is (c) Artsy Inc., available under the MIT license.

See the LICENSE file for more information.