Why not become a bunch of characters!?
To run the script you can pass values for ASCII character width and height - Values that work well are in 4:3 ratio (width:height); e.g. (16,12) or (4,3).
python ascii_art --w 4 --h 3 --canny
python ascii_art --w 4 --h 3
python ascii_art --w 16 --h 12 --canny
python ascii_art --w 16 --h 12