Sixel Graphics in the Terminal

[Nivethan T]

Not super pick related but it is a cool little feature. Sixel is a format to allow terminals to display graphics. You can convert an image to sixel and then output that on a terminal. 

A terminal that is sixel aware will display the image while one that doesn't support sixel will display the raw data.

You can install libsixel on the server:

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

You can find a sixel aware terminal here:

https://www.arewesixelyet.com/

I use foot, xterm and xterm.js usually which all support sixel.

I wrote a script to convert images to sixel and save them to a pick file. I then wrote a very simple script to cycle between the images and printing them to the screen.

You can also convert pdfs to images and then in turn convert that to sixel and display them in the terminal. A bit hokey but useful to quickly look at a generated PDF without trying to open adobe :)

[Steven Martin Trimble]

Very interesting. Cool stuff.

This is something I do with AccuTerm.

Especially useful in Inventory and Personnel pics applications.

CDMI

Steven Trimble

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