Waylon Walker

💭 Rich Pixels

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Rich Pixels — Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key …
Rich Pixels
Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key …
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I saw this post from Simon and I had to give it a go and got some pretty good results. His script is a small cli wrapper around Darren Burns’s Rich Pixels. It works well even through tmux, since there is no terminal magic, just unicode blocks.

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Some not so good, and needed the terminal font size cranked up.

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