cudASCII

[Jersey]

Making this thread for updates to cudASCII.

Currently it's able to read in a .bmp file and convert it to ASCII. I don't feel like doing whacky fractional scaling yet so I'm working on other file formats.

My question is, should I just use the file extension as the file type (and verify the file signature is in fact that file type), or should I try that, and if it fails try to deduce the file type from its signature.

The second approach is more robust, the only problem is it's also much more difficult.

[Ayydan]

Lmao, I'd just assume the format and if it doesn't work seg fault, I imagine as a library it'll only ever be fed raw pixel data anyways. Unless you plan to have a standalone version

[Jersey]

Lmao, I'd just assume the format and if it doesn't work seg fault, I imagine as a library it'll only ever be fed raw pixel data anyways. Unless you plan to have a standalone version

I wanna support a wide variety of formats. Basically you can hook into this and give it a filepath, a file descriptor/pointer, or just raw data.