aeter

from PIL import Image

ascii_chars = [ '#', 'A', '@', '%', 'S', '+', '<', '*', ':', ',', '.']

def image_to_ascii(image):
	image_as_ascii = []
	all_pixels = list(image.getdata())
	for pixel_value in all_pixels:
		index = pixel_value / 25 # 0 - 10
		image_as_ascii.append(ascii_chars[index])

aeter

grid = [
"08 02 22 97 38 15 00 40 00 75 04 05 07 78 52 12 50 77 91 08",\
"49 49 99 40 17 81 18 57 60 87 17 40 98 43 69 48 04 56 62 00",\
"81 49 31 73 55 79 14 29 93 71 40 67 53 88 30 03 49 13 36 65",\
"52 70 95 23 04 60 11 42 69 24 68 56 01 32 56 71 37 02 36 91",\
"22 31 16 71 51 67 63 89 41 92 36 54 22 40 40 28 66 33 13 80",\
"24 47 32 60 99 03 45 02 44 75 33 53 78 36 84 20 35 17 12 50",\
"32 98 81 28 64 23 67 10 26 38 40 67 59 54 70 66 18 38 64 70",\
"67 26 20 68 02 62 12 20 95 63 94 39 63 08 40 91 66 49 94 21",\
"24 55 58 05 66 73 99 26 97 17 78 78 96 83 14 88 34 89 63 72",\