Image to Pixels — pixels, dither, ASCII

or drop a PNG, JPEG or WebP · 20 MB max

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Treatment

Preview ↑

Grid columns 128

Dither methodDither strength 0.65

Image adjustments

Brightness 1Contrast 1Saturation 1

Palette

4 colors

Click a swatch to edit it. Extract uses weighted median cut on the source.

Texture & transparency

Seeded grain 0Grain seed Preserve transparencyMatte / ASCII background

Grain is off by default. A saved seed reproduces the same texture.

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SOURCE640 × 480

B / DITHERRendering…

Preparing grid…

Keep a treatment as A, then change B to compare. In pixel views, scroll either pane to inspect corresponding regions.

PNG scale

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Original procedural samples · each opens its recipe

Inspect the pipeline

Sample: area-average the source into a bounded grid, accounting for alpha.
Adjust: saturation → brightness → contrast → optional seeded grain.
Represent: nearest palette color, ordered/error-diffusion dither, or bitmap characters.
Export: integer nearest-neighbor scaling. No smoothing, server upload or generated detail.

Recipes store all settings and a sample ID or source-image fingerprint. User images are not included: reopen the original file to reproduce them. Input is normalized to 1600 px on its longest edge. PNG output is capped at 4096 px per edge.