lsix

Work in progress, but sixel support may be coming to mainline tmux: git clone git://github.com/tmux/tmux git switch sixel git checkout b1904c9b8db514133d3372aac13b2ff0b2093cc3 This will give you the "placeholder" box for sixels in terminals that do not support sixel (but you should use mlterm on Linux or mintty on Windows) The upcoming feature is to replace this placeholder box by unicode art for the sixels, cf https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 for the current discussion. Then you will be able to break your dependency on the GUI just by using w3m and your favorites sites, whether your terminal supports sixel or not (but it should, it's just better!) apt-get install libsixel1-bin w3m -sixel -o display_image=1 google.com Cf https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/244930/how-do-i-vi... There are other apps with integrated sixel supp

cat /etc/debian_version shows the file cat /etc/debian_version /etc/debian_version shows the file twice Shockingly, cat sixel1.six sixel2.six sixel3.six or img2sixel file1.jpg file2.jpg file3.jpg works in the exact same way: cf https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-testsuite/blob/master/3-sixe... Simply screenshot and edit the result when you are done. But if you want to create another tool, for example to trim white boarders and concatenate, by all means please do! Follow the example of https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix who wrote a great tool!

Using Braille patterns is a pretty cool idea. But you're still using 3×8/2×4=3 bits per pixel, excluding colour information and SSH compression. If you used the various extensions that are present in most terminal emulators (Sixel, and other proprietary/fringe ones) you could get at least 8/6=1.333 bits per pixel (for Sixel) if not better, depending on whatever the terminals support. The results look good, here is an example of a project using Sixel: https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/ There is even vector graphics support in Xterm and other terminal emulators (Tektronix mode, and maybe others such as ReGIS) that allows you to plot a line from point A to point B (and other shapes for ReGIS) In Tektronix mode you can plot lines with perfect resolution (4096 over the width of the terminal) using only 5 bytes per line, no matter how long the l