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> SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-frien
by stevenhuang 5y ago
> SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
- sph 5y agoI wonder if a terminal protocol invented in the mid 80s to send graphics to dot-matrix printers is still a good idea four decades later. How well does it deal with > 8 bit colours and very high resolutions?
- smasher164 5y agoMost terminals don’t support > 8 bit, so this is less about having a cutting-edge graphics protocol in the terminal, but more about having a standardized, backwards-compatible protocol that can feasibly be implemented by most terminal emulators.