I want to resize some ascii art. Say it looks like this:
..K .T. .A. I want to upscale it, by some number n, so it will look like this (n=2)
....KK ....KK ..TT.. ..TT.. ..AA.. ..AA.. One way I thought about doing this was to convert the text into a matrix of their ascii values and use some interpolation function to resize the matrix, and convert it back to text to achieve the desired result, but I have not been able to find a function that will do that for me.
What is the easiest way to do this. If it makes it simpler, you can assume that n is always 4. (Because in my current situation this is the scale I need)
11 Answer
Assuming you have a file test.txt with following content:
..K .T. .A. The following code will read the file and prodcue an output file test_out.txt which contains horizontally and vertically multiplied characters, depending what you specify for N:
N = 4 with open('test.txt', 'r') as f: with open('test_out.txt', 'w') as out_f: for line in f: # Repeat characters N times horizontally output = "".join([N * c for c in line.strip()]) # Repeat lines N times vertically for _ in range(N): out_f.write(output + '\n') Output (test_out.txt) for N = 2:
....KK ....KK ..TT.. ..TT.. ..AA.. ..AA.. Output (test_out.txt) for N = 4:
........KKKK ........KKKK ........KKKK ........KKKK ....TTTT.... ....TTTT.... ....TTTT.... ....TTTT.... ....AAAA.... ....AAAA.... ....AAAA.... ....AAAA.... 
