Did anyone even stop to appreciate the irony of using a thing created for blind people to make something that will only ever be useful to people with sight, if at all?
On a similar note, I wrote a library for drawing (24-bit) color raster graphics in the terminal if anyone's interested:<p><a href="https://github.com/fenwick67/term-px" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fenwick67/term-px</a><p>Demo / image utility here:<p><a href="https://fenwick.pizza/term-px/" rel="nofollow">https://fenwick.pizza/term-px/</a>
I can't wait until people rediscover Sixels and get actual graphics in the terminal in a network-transparent fashion. Modern terminal emulators support it, it just isn't widely known.
Quite reminiscent of the Teletext 'alpha mosaic' characters, which were 2x3 block graphics characters.<p>It could be used to make pages like e.g. <a href="https://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/c4/1995-08-26-0046.0/496.html" rel="nofollow">https://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/teletext/c4/1995-08-26-0046.0/4...</a>
My previous attempt at a pithy complaint pointing out the license of this project was flagged, so I will attempt to provide a bit more value:<p>This is a great idea and would be nice even just as an art project but unfortunately I can't do much personally useful with it.<p>The choice is 100% up to the author and I respect how they avoid losing control of their IP. It is interesting to see the uptake and I wonder how many project using this tool are in violation of the license.<p><a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html</a>
This is a really neat looking project (and the GH readme references the original HN discussion). For folks who are generally into TTY UIs and dashboards, I also want to point out the Blessed terminal rendering lib and its ecosystem (which even includes a React bridge!):<p><pre><code> - https://github.com/chjj/blessed
- https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
- https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed
</code></pre>
(edited for syntax and also to clarify I am not affiliated with the above, just a fan)
I think the block characters are easier to read, but with a 4x4 grid the resolution is lower: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements</a><p>The resulting pixel resolution is a bit screwy, especially if you use a tall, thin font like the one I tend to. Too many pixels horizontally, too few vertically. The upper block/lower block characters might be better in terms of aspect ratio, but then the overall resolution is made even worse...<p>The 2x3 Braille grid makes a lot more sense.