from PIL import Image

im = Image.open('starry_night.jpg')

im.size

im = im.resize((125, 100), Image.ANTIALIAS)

imdata = im.getdata()

imdata[0]

len(imdata)

import os
import itertools

with open('starry_night.txt', 'w') as f:
    s = ['# width height', '{0} {1}'.format(im.size[0], im.size[1]),
         '# block size', '4',
         '# initial color', '0 0 0',
         '# row column red green blue']
    f.write(os.linesep.join(s) + os.linesep)
    
    for ((row, col), colors) in itertools.izip(itertools.product(xrange(im.size[1]), xrange(im.size[0])), imdata):
        things = [str(x) for x in (row, col) + colors]
        f.write(' '.join(things + ['\n']))

!head starry_night.txt

from ipythonblocks import BlockGrid

grid = BlockGrid(125, 100, block_size=4, lines_on=False)

for block, colors in itertools.izip(grid, imdata):
    block.rgb = colors

grid