libsixel

A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel). (by saitoha)

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  • GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Aug 2023
  • VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2023
    Library you can use to generate these images:

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

    Plenty of links to other projects.

  • UnicodePlots
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
  • Forking Chrome to Render in a Terminal
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023
    Sixels are pixels and enjoy a wide support due to how old it is.

    Kitty protocol is PNG or primitives - which BTW would make it great for a GUI library.

    Different tools for different needs, but if you are going for a wide support you want something simple that doesn't have 5 different types you have to separately implement and test:

    > d: Direct (the data is transmitted within the escape code itself)

    > f: A simple file (regular files only, not named pipes or similar)

    > t: A temporary file, the terminal emulator will delete the file after reading the pixel data. For security reasons the terminal emulator should only delete the file if it is in a known temporary directory, such as /tmp, /dev/shm, TMPDIR env var if present and any platform specific temporary directories and the file has the string tty-graphics-protocol in its full file path.

    > s: A shared memory object, which on POSIX systems is a POSIX shared memory object and on Windows is a Named shared memory object. The terminal emulator must read the data from the memory object and then unlink and close it on POSIX and just close it on Windows.

    > What nonsense, it takes literally 15 lines of code without using anything beyond the standard library to write a client

    Conveniently taking a preencoded PNG and assuming away the necessary queries of supported protocol:

    > Since a client has no a-priori knowledge of whether it shares a filesystem/shared memory with the terminal emulator, it can send an id with the control data, using the i key (which can be an arbitrary positive integer up to 4294967295, it must not be zero).

    > for the kitty graphics protocol. I challenge you to match that for sixel

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/tree/master/perl

        use Image::LibSIXEL;
  • A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
    25 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jan 2023
    Also:

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

    contains img2sixel, which lets you dump images to the terminal. It can also do animated GIFs.

    Video:

    https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL

    GUI apps:

    https://github.com/saitoha/SDL1.2-SIXEL

    and more, linked from the libsixel repository.

  • Emacs on an iPad
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022
    Not sure of Terminal emulator capabilities on Apple devices, but thanks to https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel , several applications, including emacs very much support image output in terminals.
  • Libsixel
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jul 2022
  • What color do you use for your terminal?
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 23 Jun 2022
    You don't have multi-colored terminal output? Even legacy systems have long had Sixel support.
  • Are We Sixel Yet?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2022
    > SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

  • Saw a few console apps and thought I might pitch in/show my own graphics library for the C# Console: The BasicRender Suite
    7 projects | /r/csharp | 3 Mar 2022
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