What it does
Brightness-to-character mapping with a per-effect editable character set + font picker. Drives the demo-scene aesthetic; sub-pixel sampling keeps it readable at small sizes.
Plugin id: core.ascii
Effects · Stylize
ASCII
Render the frame as monospace characters.
Parameters
The controls you'll see in the inspector. Like every effect parameter in Visualz, each one is audio-bindable — route a frequency band, beat onset, sweep, or MIDI CC at it and it moves with the show.
charactersfontcell sizecolor mode
Runs everywhere effects run
Drop ASCII on any of the four buses — clip, layer, track, or set — with pre-or-post placement and a per-effect dry/wet mix. Stack it with the rest of the chain freely; the engine batches everything into a single per-frame draw graph, and a chain you like can be saved as an FX preset and re-applied with one click.
More Stylize effects
Pixelate
Block-down to chunky pixels.
Posterize
Reduce the color palette to N levels.
Threshold
Hard black-and-white cut.
Dot Matrix
LED display grid.
Halftone
Newsprint dot-screen.
Dither
Ordered (Bayer) or error-diffusion dithering.
Decimate
Quantize the time axis — frame-skipping effect.
Watercolor
Multi-pass painterly stylization.
Crosshatch
Multi-direction hatching lines stylize the frame.
Oil Paint
Kuwahara-style painterly bucket sort.
Stipple
Random dot stippling, density driven by darkness.
Comic
Cel-shaded posterize + dark outline.
Crystallize
Voronoi-cell color averaging — stained-glass look.
Outline
Colored line wrapping bright shapes.
Gaussian Splat
Rebuild the frame as a field of soft, drifting Gaussian blobs.