Minor Changes

I changed how the status of the conversion appears, and it now shows you how much the data's been compressed once it's been converted to a PNG file.

DataToPixel_RGB.py

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # each ASCII character takes up a 0-127 space, meaning we can fit at least 1 ASCII character into each channel of a given pixel in an image!
 # we need to assign the numeric value of a series of ASCII characters to each of the channels of each pixel of an image!
 
+# ensure proper division
+from __future__ import division
+import os
+
 # make list from string
 fileName = raw_input("Give me a file to pixelize:\n")
 #fileName = ""
@@ -18,12 +22,14 @@ listLength = len(dataList)
 
 import math
 width = int(math.ceil(math.sqrt(listLength/3)))
+#width = int(math.ceil(listLength/3))+1
 
 #print "width: " + str(width)
 
 # make the image
 from PIL import Image
 image = Image.new('RGB',(width,width),color=0)
+#image = Image.new('RGB',(width,1),color=0)
 
 # load the temp image and store the ASCII value in one of its pixels
 px = image.load()
@@ -55,10 +61,18 @@ for q in range(0,width):
             #print gVal
             #print bVal
             
-            print str(index) + "/" + str(listLength) + " done"
+            #print str(index+1) + "/" + str(listLength) + " done"
+            currentProgress = 100 * ((index + 1) / listLength)
+            print("{:.4f}%".format(currentProgress))
             index += 3
 
+print("Finished!")
 
-    
-image.show()
-image.save("asciiConverted_RGB.png")
+#image.show()
+image.save("CONVERTED.png")
+
+oldFileSize = os.path.getsize(fileName)
+newFileSize = os.path.getsize("CONVERTED.png")
+fileSizeReduction = 100 * (1 - (newFileSize / oldFileSize))
+
+print("File size reduced by {:.2f}%".format(fileSizeReduction))

PixelToData_RGB.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #fileName = raw_input("Give me a file to pixelize:\n")
 
 from PIL import Image
-image = Image.open("asciiConverted_RGB.png")
+image = Image.open("CONVERTED.png")
 
 # get image width
 width, height = image.size
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ stringOutput = ""
 
 index = 0
 
-for q in range(0,width):
+for q in range(0,height):
     for i in range(0,width):
             # stringOutput += chr(px[i,q])
             
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ for q in range(0,width):
                 
             #print "-"
             
-            print str(index) + "/" + str(width*width) + " done"
+            print str(index+1) + "/" + str(width*width) + " done"
             index += 1
             
 #print stringOutput
 
 # save to file
-outFile = open("TESTCONVERT.txt","w")
+outFile = open("CONVERTBACK.obj","w")
 outFile.write(stringOutput)
 outFile.close()