M. Berry
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Tesserae

Renders any 3D object as a map of lit glyphs. Pick a shape, type a word, describe a scene, or drop in a model.

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The Utah teapot drawn in thousands of characters, lit from the upper left.
The Utah teapot, drawn in 12,000 glyphs. The side facing the light takes heavy characters, the shadow side light ones.
Type
Renderer, in the browser
Input
Built-in shapes, text, prompts, or a model file (.glb, .gltf, .obj, .stl, .ply, .fbx)
Modes
Letters floating in 3D, a fixed character grid, or halftone dots
Export
Plain-text ASCII or PNG
Licence
EPL-2.0