TerminalImageViewer

Another C++ Library (+command line tool) to convert images to Ansi art is TerminalImageViewer(tiv): https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer The algorithm is described at the top of the README, examples are at the end. I'd really be interested to read what the specific innovation is for new libraries / algorithms... A shared reference image would probably also help to see the differences...

The cross-platform GUI toolkit I personally prefer is Qt. Bein' I'ma "Python guy" I tend to interact with Qt mainly via PyQt/PySide, but there's handy bindings for a ton of other cross-platform programming languages as well. I've also recently(ish) discovered and been thoroughly impressed by Will McGugan's "Rich" library and the "Textual" TUI library he built for it. Been sprucing up all my terminal output to be more modern using those two lately. > "The achilles heel of terminal UIs is that they can't display images." That statement is not entirely 100% accurate these days, thanks to some really creative hacks over the years. I'll list a few links where some fun examples live. ;) [1] https://github.com/atanunq/viu [2] https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer [3] https://askubuntu.com/questions/97542/how-do-i-make-my-ter

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 mor

There's another tool, tiv, which uses a wider range of unicode characters (and has done for years). It's quite slow though. https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

On imgcat, those extensions to the xterm protocol[0] seem really nice. I've long thought that there needs to be a simple escape sequence for a horizontal divider that doesn't break upon resizing, they should do that next! Also check out tiv[1] which is an alternative that works with any unicode terminal. [0]: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html [1]:https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

This problem can be easily solved using the unicode half block character. People who make these terminal toys rarely leverage unicode (I suppose for aesthetic reasons?). Here's an example of what you can achieve just with unicode chars: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer is amazing (but requires high-ascii font support from your term). And it's easy to install: `sudo snap install --edge tiv`

Is that https://github.com/radare/tiv , https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer , or something else?

If you'd like to actually quickly preview images in the terminal, you might be interested in my tiv app: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer (it uses a block graphics character matching algorithm to get a slightly better resolution than 2 pixel per character)

Shameless plug: Done here for displaying images in modern terminals: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer I was wondering if I should try this for a more complete set of unicode characters (opposed to just block graphics), but I'd need find a good way to match slightly off positioning. Perhaps just register the same character multiple times, shifted by one px in each direction?

It's a bit sad that many of the ETSI EN 300 706 V1.2.1 graphics characters (1, section 15.7.2) are not available in Unicode. I am maintaining a small program that renders images directly in the terminal using unicode block graphics characters (2), and these would come really handy to enhance the conversion... 1) https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300700_300799/300706/01... 2) https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

You might get a slightly better resolution with the approach taken here: https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer (= find best matching block graphics character for most prominent colors in a cell; there is a comparison to half blocks at the end).