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 (by rastapasta)
TerminalImageViewer
Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters (by stefanhaustein)
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| mapscii | TerminalImageViewer | |
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| 16 | 9 | |
| 6,867 | 1,491 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| about 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
| JavaScript | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mapscii
Posts with mentions or reviews of mapscii.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-18.
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Show HN: MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
Based on https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii, jI ust found this today. Maybe today I am one of the lucky ten thousand(https://xkcd.com/1053/).
- MapSCII – ASCII world map renderer for your console – enter => telnet mapscii.me
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I made an ascii art weather radar. Would love some collaborators.
Have you seen the mapscii project? Might be helpful to reach out: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
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Earth Map in a MUD
FWIW - https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
- Ancient Egypt ASCII Map
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Writing a Google Maps clone, in the terminal
You could probably get some ideas from this.
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Yes, this thing exists and works better than google maps
See this issue on github
- Does anyone have a useful map for the terminal?
- Charm – tools to make the command line glamorous
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OSM Geo Mapper - Navigate OpenStreetMap data in the terminal
Maybe you don't know about mapscii yet, a similar project written in JS which could definitely be a great source of inspiration? ;)
TerminalImageViewer
Posts with mentions or reviews of TerminalImageViewer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-24.
- 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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mapscii and TerminalImageViewer you can also consider the following projects:
rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.
imcat - Show any image in a terminal window.
OsmAnd - OsmAnd
x64dbg - An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
charm - The Charm Tool and Library 🌟
catimg - 🦦 Insanely fast image printing in your terminal
console-image-browser - Console Image Browser (cib) - An interactive wrapper for viewing images in the terminal
combot - A utility to parse access logs and detect bots.
chat - A telnet chat server
duckduckgo-locales - Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>
lipgloss - Style definitions for nice terminal layouts 👄
chafa - 📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.
mapscii vs rich
TerminalImageViewer vs imcat
mapscii vs OsmAnd
TerminalImageViewer vs x64dbg
mapscii vs charm
TerminalImageViewer vs catimg
mapscii vs console-image-browser
TerminalImageViewer vs combot
mapscii vs chat
TerminalImageViewer vs duckduckgo-locales
mapscii vs lipgloss
TerminalImageViewer vs chafa