Now #Eat supports #Sixel! (Experimental) #Emacs #Terminal

TIL my #Sixel takes a better #30SecondCommute video than my #Akaso. I also need to adjust or tighten the bands on my #QuadLock handlebar mount. It's not designed to handle a phone hanging vertically off the side.
#ebike #RadRunner #BikeTooter #CyclingIreland

https://youtube.com/shorts/cG9SpJvH15I?feature=share

@jeang3nie @alcinnz

I think there is some resistance in the #Gemini community to image support in Gemtext.

I don't think it is universal. (Some seem to want image support too.)

But there does seem to be some who are against it.

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I think if one wanted to keep to the rule of one-document-one-download then —

One could embed the image inside the #gemtext file.

For example, base64 encode the image within the file. Could be a #dataURI. Or something else.

Could even use a #sixel .

@BrodieOnLinux
I'm using #chafa with #sixel btw. Works like a breeze !

@carcosa Apropos playing with code (not only on #cpm).

Using #xterm's #sixel graphics from CP/M is easy. But I haven't found out how to draw them in a way, that the image visually grows. Xterm buffers it invisibly until the end command for Sixels is sent and only then copies the result in a flash into the screen.

If someone has hints how to mimic the visible drawing like the original terminals did, pleas drop URLs.

img2sixel on VT-330
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SasrQ7pnbA

> But Coffee, what on earth are #Sixel graphics?

👉 Did you know?

You can display actual #bitmap #images on the actual #console in selected #terminal emulators.

Terminals which support this include #MLTerm, #FootTerminal and #XTerm (after configuration). Support in #GnomeTerminal and other #VTE-based terminals is underway.

More info:
* https://codeberg.org/coffee/sixel-experiments
* https://open.source.coffee/sixel-graphics.html
* other posts in this thread

👇

I made a page about #Sixel graphics on my home page:

https://open.source.coffee/sixel-graphics.html

About time!

It's adapted from the readme of the sixel-graphics project on my GitLab, and still very WIP. ("markdumb" currently doesn't understand literal blocks, among other problems.)

Hopefully I'll have time to improve it later, but it's a start.

@requiem
Maybe #sixel graphics are up your alley?

#neofetch with the #chafa backend.

Chafa uses its #sixel backend.

Background opacity is 75%.

chafa-1.8 enables sixels on foot by default.

If you prefer non-sixel output, try "chafa --symbols border+block+stipple+sextant+wedge" with foot >= 1.9!

https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/discussions/60

#chafa #foot #terminal #sixel

Yes, I'm only 12 years behind current now. Still going through the xkcd archives slowly, thanks to the power of #sixkcd running in a loop in a #sixel capable terminal, with suitable delay.

Hi. Please enjoy this 1/4096th random* slice of the #Dutch province of #Flevoland, as a 500x500 #Sixel graphic.

Now with ways drawn and the y axis flipped so that North is Up.

Why Flevoland? It was the smallest osm file that could be downloaded for NL.

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* actually the exact center of the dataset's declared bounding box, plus and minus 1/128 of its width and height.

Look what I did with my sunday night, right until the alarm went off and I was supposed to get up to go to work.

#OSM #Sixel #Netherlands #Flevoland

#foot 1.8.0 is out 🎉

Highlights:

* Grapheme shaping (i.e. emoji sequences)
* XDG activation support ("urgency")
* -o,--override command line option to set/override foot.ini options
* Much improved performance of interactive window resize
* Tabs are now preserved when copying text
* Blend sixels emitted on top of each other

... and lots more: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.8.0

#wayland #TerminalEmulator #Terminal #sixel

libsixel has been forked: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/154

Let's hope development picks up. Really looking forward to transparency support.

#Sixel

#FootTerminal 1.7.0 is out 🎉

The big new thing is URLs - both auto detected and OSC-8 based URLs.

Another pretty big thing is that foot now renders box drawing characters itself, instead of using font glyphs.

We've also added support for transparent sixels, improved double- and triple-click selection, and more :)

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.7.0

#wayland #Terminal #TerminalEmulator #Sixel

@neauoire Reminds me of #sixel graphics. Same benefits, too.

Tempted to implement a small subset of #Logo which renders to #Sixel #graphics inside the #terminal.

I shouldn't, but...

Sixel previews are coming to ranger! https://github.com/ranger/ranger/pull/2234

#sixel #terminal #TerminalEmulator

@hyde Not using it for its multi-language support but for its #Sixel capabilities. 😉