[charlesdaniels]

Every time I see these things, I wish Sixel graphics[0] were better supported, or else some more modern alternative.

Being able to use GNUPlot with Sixel output or tools like lsix[1] is really cool! I think if support / libraries / knowledge about Sixels was more widespread, we would see some really nifty terminal applications cropping up.

0 - https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/

1 - https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix

[dheera]

I wrote a generic terminal graphics library that uses Unicode Braille with the option of ASCII fallback: https://github.com/dheera/python-termgraphics

I was thinking about adding sixel support to this to have a universal graphics library that intelligently uses the best method available., but never got around to it yet.

[fishmaster]

This looks pretty cool. Why isn't this more popular?

[dheera]

Most of the "default" terminal apps (e.g. gnome-terminal) don't support sixel.

[andi999]

What terminal do I need to see these images. I am confused.

[charlesdaniels]

The libsixel website lists several that support it. Xterm can support this in VT430 emulation mode, but support needs to be enabled at compile time.