TerminalImageViewer
console-image-browser
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| TerminalImageViewer | console-image-browser | |
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| 9 | 1 | |
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| 8.3 | 0.0 | |
| 13 days ago | over 4 years ago | |
| C++ | Ruby | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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TerminalImageViewer
- Attracting attention to terminalimageviwer, a c++ program that renders an image with block chars and optionally teletype chars! Unfortunately hasn't had any real commits since July 2021
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A year of building for the terminal
As an example someone did some work to view images inside a terminal window: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
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ANSIArt
Another C++ Library to convert images to unicode is TerminalImageViewer(tiv): https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
The algorithm is described at the top of the README, examples are at the end.
- Effective way to generate ANSI?
- Bubble Tea: fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps
- MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
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Parsing a logfile be like
it's really simple lol, I just used tiv to convert the template into a text file, then used my experimental editor (only works on linux ofc) to add text & modify the image. Then its just hosted on a webserver
console-image-browser
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MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
Given the terminals you listed above, I assume you are referring to something very specific when you say "show images properly". However, there is a lot more flexibility to use the terminal of your choice (not to mention compatibility with other programs like tmux) if you don't need pixel-perfect reproduction.
For example, I made an image browser for the terminal [0] based on Terminal Image Viewer [1] (for most image formats) and catimg [2] (for animated GIFs) that doesn't require installing a new terminal. It works great with tmux and SSH and I use it all the time for this purpose (though I didn't initially expect to find it so useful).
YMMV, but I have found that the image quality provided by TIV for example is more than sufficient for the kinds of use cases I tend to have when in a console session and needing to quickly view one or more images. Mostly that involves quickly identifying a particular image file among others in a directory, but it's so much easier to not have to leave the terminal and change contexts that it's often more convenient to reach for it for more general tasks too. Any tradeoff in quality is more than made up for in my view by the convenience of being able to use my regular terminal.
[0]: https://github.com/dohliam/console-image-browser
What are some alternatives?
imcat - Show any image in a terminal window.
mapscii - 🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
catimg - 🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal
combot - A utility to parse access logs and detect bots.
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
chafa - 📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.
termbench - Simple benchmark for terminal output
bubbletea - A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies