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by keepingscore
2068 days ago
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Hi! I made imgcat. I wanted to say how wonderful it is to wake up and find myself on the front page of hackernews. Things are so hard right now in the pandemic and this has given me a little virtual hug. Big thanks to the eng team at https://charm.sh/ who wrote the terminal library I am using and showed up with prs and great ideas. |
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If you want to further add vertical resolution, Unicode 13 introduces 2x3 mosaics (from the TRS-80, Teletext and others) that are supported directly within VTE (so people don't need to install a font). Slightly more complicated are the "smoothed" mosaics (from Minitel 2, IIRC) but they offer diagonal lines (and complement PETSCII and ATASCII symbols also introduced in version 13).
I expect 2x4's to be available for version 14, but it'll be a while.
2x3's (and 2x4's) are kind of funny, because you still won't be able to use more than 2 colors per cell, so it works for cells with two colors but that can be subdivided in thirds (or quarters). Finding a best fit for a cell and a mosaic is not a trivial job.