Picunic – convert image to Unicode art using ML

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I built Picunic, a web-based port of a terminal image viewer that converts images to Unicode art using a CNN.*Demo:* https://mnur.me/picunic/*GitHub:* https://github.com/mohammed-nurulhoque/picunic*How it works:* - Splits images into 8×16 pixel chunks (matching terminal cell aspect ratio) - Runs each chunk through a CNN encoder to get a 64-dim embedding - Finds the Unicode character with the most similar embedding (cosine similarity) - The CNN was trained on ~2000 Unicode characters rendered in DejaVu Sans MonoEverything runs client-side via WebAssembly - no server needed. Features include adjustable width, dithering for photos, and ASCII-only mode.Built with Rust (compiled to WASM), ONNX Ru

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Website: mnur.me/picunic