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There really just needs to be a terminal API for true pixel graphics. Something like sixel but modernized and cleaned up. There's no need to hack in graphics on
by comesee 8y ago
There really just needs to be a terminal API for true pixel graphics. Something like sixel but modernized and cleaned up. There's no need to hack in graphics on top of Unicode block characters, which negates backwards compatibility anyway.
- judofyr 8y agoiTerm2 has a escape codes for viewing images, but I haven’t seen any other terminals picking it up: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
- comesee 8y agoThis is nearly what I'm talking about but it requires the terminal emulator to understand the image format. I guess that makes sense for transfer efficiency, and if you want a pixel-level API you could just transfer BMPs.
- daleroberts 8y agoIf you have iTerm2, you might like: https://github.com/daleroberts/bv https://github.com/daleroberts/bv https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot