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I keep being surprised of what you can use/abuse the terminal for...

• QuantumNomad_ 7mo ago
  It uses a program called Chafa to render the video. https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ Hadn’t heard of Chafa before. Chafa supports outputting to all popular terminal graphics formats according to the Chafa website: Sixels, Kitty, iTerm2, Unicode mosaics. Speaking of which it is also worth to point out that for example sixels were first invented and put into use quite early on: > […] as a way to send bitmap data to the VT200 series and VT320 terminals when defining custom character sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel In the references if that Wikipedia article you see for example VT330/VT340 Programmer Reference Manual, Volume 2: Graphics Programming from May 1988. https://www.vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html https://www.vt100.net/docs/vt3xx-gp/chapter14.html