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Printing images in the terminal with 9 lines of Ruby

52 points by astro- 11y ago

donatj 11y ago
That's neat but I'm sure those gems are far more than 9 lines. I was expecting something more like: https://donatstudios.com/Damn-Simple-PHP-ASCII-Art-Generator https://donatstudios.com/Damn-Simple-PHP-ASCII-Art-Generator
- astro- 11y ago
  You're absolutely right. I was trying to showcase what can be easily done with things that are there. And in particular the possibility to use RGB directly in the terminal. Really like your ASCII art generator, by the way!
vezzy-fnord 11y ago
I've always thought the fact that our modern VTEs still being stuck in pure text mode is a regression. We've already settled on terminal control being VT-100 (or more accurately ANSI sequences). Given experience from prior windowing systems like rio and Oberon, why isn't it standard fare to have programmable text, built-in text processing in terminal windows and bitmap images? TUIs are only the tip of the iceberg, and the inclusion of aforementioned features would obsolete plenty of use cases for GUIs, along with making a lot of task automation so much easier. Application launchers and things like "let me hack a quick script to do a processing job" then become unnecessary.
- nine_k 11y ago
  The above has been tried in mid-1990s, with some success, then suddenly exploded, and now we ended up with HTML5 + CSS3.
  - vezzy-fnord 11y ago
    No, the web is nothing like what I had in mind.
thomasfl 11y ago
It's scripts like this that makes programming fun.
thomasfl 11y ago
It's scripts like this that makes programming fun.
betandr 11y ago
Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)
MattBearman 11y ago
Very cool! Did you specifically choose RMagick over MiniMagick?
- astro- 11y ago
  Thanks! No, it was the one that came up first on Google I guess. Since all that I'm using is change_geometry and resize! I might switch it over to something more lightweight. Made a note here: https://github.com/pazdera/catpix/issues/1 https://github.com/pazdera/catpix/issues/1 Thanks for the suggestion, Matt!
tremendo 11y ago
"This is not the Star Trek actor you're looking for…" (Patrick Stewart /Capt. Picard, not Leonard Nimoy /Spock). Love the script BTW, great work.
- astro- 11y ago
  Whoops. Thanks for pointing it out! I fixed it right away, sorry about that.

52 points by astro- 11y ago

That's neat but I'm sure those gems are far more than 9 lines. I was expecting something more like: https://donatstudios.com/Damn-Simple-PHP-ASCII-Art-Generator https://donatstudios.com/Damn-Simple-PHP-ASCII-Art-Generator

astro- 11y ago
You're absolutely right. I was trying to showcase what can be easily done with things that are there. And in particular the possibility to use RGB directly in the terminal. Really like your ASCII art generator, by the way!

vezzy-fnord 11y ago

I've always thought the fact that our modern VTEs still being stuck in pure text mode is a regression. We've already settled on terminal control being VT-100 (or more accurately ANSI sequences). Given experience from prior windowing systems like rio and Oberon, why isn't it standard fare to have programmable text, built-in text processing in terminal windows and bitmap images? TUIs are only the tip of the iceberg, and the inclusion of aforementioned features would obsolete plenty of use cases for GUIs, along with making a lot of task automation so much easier. Application launchers and things like "let me hack a quick script to do a processing job" then become unnecessary.

nine_k 11y ago
The above has been tried in mid-1990s, with some success, then suddenly exploded, and now we ended up with HTML5 + CSS3.
- vezzy-fnord 11y ago
  No, the web is nothing like what I had in mind.

thomasfl 11y ago

It's scripts like this that makes programming fun.

thomasfl 11y ago

It's scripts like this that makes programming fun.

betandr 11y ago

Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)

MattBearman 11y ago

Very cool! Did you specifically choose RMagick over MiniMagick?

astro- 11y ago
Thanks! No, it was the one that came up first on Google I guess. Since all that I'm using is change_geometry and resize! I might switch it over to something more lightweight. Made a note here: https://github.com/pazdera/catpix/issues/1 https://github.com/pazdera/catpix/issues/1 Thanks for the suggestion, Matt!

tremendo 11y ago

"This is not the Star Trek actor you're looking for…" (Patrick Stewart /Capt. Picard, not Leonard Nimoy /Spock). Love the script BTW, great work.

astro- 11y ago
Whoops. Thanks for pointing it out! I fixed it right away, sorry about that.