Image to ASCII art using  PIL Python [Warning : sort of simple]

You may have heard about ASCII art,for those who haven't heard of it -

"Alternatively referred to as ANSI art, text art, or word art, ASCII art is the process of forming pictures or art out of the characters available in the ASCII chart." - Computerhope

It can be as simple as this

Or as good as this

                                                      

Lets create a simple program to convert a image into ascii art.

Some images converted to ascii art: