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Perfectly emulating pixel graphics with a TUI isn't really the point. The point is to simplify an interface to the most essential text. Look at lynx or elinks
by qbasic_forever 5y ago
Perfectly emulating pixel graphics with a TUI isn't really the point. The point is to simplify an interface to the most essential text. Look at lynx or elinks for an example of a more realistic and usable TUI web browser. It doesn't try to play youtube videos, it just extracts the text and content from a site to display it.
But to your question, yes there are 'text' console bitmap graphics protocols. Check out sixel for one example: https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ Some terminal emulators support other bitmap graphics too.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe point of things like sixel is to efficiently support interfaces where text is mixed with a little bit of graphics, like in many old-style apps of the 1980s and 1990s - they work very well for that. Replicating a full-featured GUI though is kinda outside their scope; you could make it work but it's not really the point.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoBy the way regarding sixels, in the original VT430 (IIRC) they were ridiculously slow :P. Anything today is lightning fast.