How to run the example code provided by image-to-ascii

This article assumes that you’ve got node.js, image-to-ascii and graphicsmagick installed. See the following for articles for details.

Installing Node.js on OS X

Installing image-to-ascii and graphicsmagick for use with a Node.js

Open a browser and head on over to github, we’re going to learn where to find info on how to use this module:

IonicaBizau/image-to-ascii

Open your favorite text editor, or use the basic TextEdit if you don’t yet have one installed. Paste the example code, save the file and then run it.

Open a Terminal and then run the following commands:

cd ~/image-to-ascii
touch example.js
open -a TextEdit example.js

Paste the example code and save the document.

Now run the example script that we just created:

node example.js

The output of the example script.