Image to ASCII Converter on the Terminal

image2ascii.py

import PIL.Image

# use two hashtags to get a square image
char = "##"

def display_image(image):
    width, height = image.size
    ascii_image = []
    for y in range(height):
        line = []
        for x in range(width):
            pixel = image.getpixel((x, y))
            termPixel = f"\033[38;2;{pixel[0]};{pixel[1]};{pixel[2]}m{char}\033[0m"
            line.append(termPixel)
        ascii_image.append("".join(line))

    for line in ascii_image:
        print(line)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    image = PIL.Image.open("break64.jpeg") ## IMAGE
    display_image(image)

Here is an example output: