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Re:TUIs by qbasic_forever on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @08:49PM (#30706152)
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/ Some terminal emulators support other bitmap graphics too.

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Re:TUIs by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @09:54PM (#30706666)
The 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.
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Re:TUIs by GekkePrutser on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:43PM (#30707041)
By the way regarding sixels, in the original VT430 (IIRC) they were ridiculously slow :P. Anything today is lightning fast.
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