Fabulous: Python library for printing images and fancy text to the terminal

This is cool, but I get the feeling it is just a workaround for the broken state of current terminals. Why are they still character based? We have had bitmap displays as long as I have had a computer, but we still emulate text terminals.<p>There are graphical terminals in programs like Maple and Matlab, and some years ago there was talk of an XML-based terminal, but nothing happens.<p>Sorry for the rant. I just couldn't help my self.

It reminds me the famous libcaca:<p><a href="http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca" rel="nofollow">http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca</a><p>One of my favorite application of the libcaca is neercs:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQr42LjaNCY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQr42LjaNCY</a>

Lobstertech: I couldn't help but be reminded of the fancy things we did with ANSI graphics in the BBS days. Merging the gif/jpg to ansi converter was very clever. This could make for some interesting terminal programs.

looks very cool, but running easy_install fabulous on Mac 10.5 installed a broken version. the demo threw some errors and the whole thing blinked and didn't show all the colors. blinking terminal....<p>might work if i build it myself and sort out the ld dependencies. anyway, still a cool project. not sure i'll ever have use for it...maybe for debug apps.

You can also install it via pip:<p>sudo pip install fabulous