ascii-camera

Rust + wgpu skeleton to capture webcam frames (GStreamer) and upload them to GPU for further processing.

Quickstart (Arch Linux)

1. Install system dependencies:

sudo pacman -Syu gstreamer gst-plugins-base gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-bad gst-libav

If you plan to use a RealSense depth camera, install librealsense from AUR.

2. Build & run:

cargo build --release
cargo run --release

3. If the app fails to open the camera, make sure /dev/video0 exists and your user has permission. You can test with gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src device=/dev/video0 ! videoconvert ! autovideosink.

Next steps

• Add compute shaders to implement the DoG → Sobel → tile voting → glyph atlas rendering pipeline.
• Add assets/glyph_atlas.png with 8×8 glyphs for ASCII characters.