Re:Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
by Flimm on Saturday September 18, 2021 @05:28AM
(#28574845)
Chafa is an open source project that lets you visualize images on the command-line by converting them to Unicode characters ("ASCII art") with colours. It's available in many Linux distros, as well as Homebrew for macOS. What a find!
Re:Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
by mgraczyk on Friday September 17, 2021 @09:39PM
(#28572795)
Wow this is pretty incredible.
I work on image processing and generally do mosh + tmux + cli tools. I have to run servers on my workstation to view images (or use jupyter notebooks). This would seriously simplify some basic debugging workflows for me!
Re:Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
by thayne on Saturday September 18, 2021 @01:47AM
(#28573996)
I really wish there was a standard pixel format for terminals that was better than sixel. iTerm2 and kitty each have their own custom mechanism, but AFAIK, they are the only ones that use their respective protocols.
Re:Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything
by floatboth on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:47PM
(#28589349)
It's much better in every way.
It's very actively maintained by someone who cares a lot about features and user experience. In fact I've switched to wezterm right after a current Alacritty maintainer rejected my little pull request that excluded fancy newline signs and stuff from the default URL characters list.
Aside from cool features, the renderer is better too, IIUC it's already using lots-of-quads like a proposed alacritty improvement in a long unmerged PR.
Under the list of supported terminals they mention:
Another innovative beast of genetically engineered goodness: ctx.
[1] https://ctx.graphics/terminal/
To play, or not to play?
I work on image processing and generally do mosh + tmux + cli tools. I have to run servers on my workstation to view images (or use jupyter notebooks). This would seriously simplify some basic debugging workflows for me!
chafa -f sixels image.png
https://github.com/wez/wezterm
It's very actively maintained by someone who cares a lot about features and user experience. In fact I've switched to wezterm right after a current Alacritty maintainer rejected my little pull request that excluded fancy newline signs and stuff from the default URL characters list.
Aside from cool features, the renderer is better too, IIUC it's already using lots-of-quads like a proposed alacritty improvement in a long unmerged PR.