On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 11:25:47AM +0200, Wolfgang Silbermayr wrote: > Package name: viu > Upstream Author: Atanas Yankov <atanas.yanko...@gmail.com> > URL: https://github.com/atanunq/viu > Description: > viu is a small command-line application to view images from the terminal > written in Rust. It uses unicode lower half blocks to fit 2 pixels into > a single cell by adjusting foreground and background colors accordingly.
Hi! This looks exactly as what "catimg" does -- is there are any reason to prefer viu over catimg? And if you drop the requirement of a fixed 1x2 half-block grid but allow dividing character cells in other ways, the results are DRASTICALLY better. This is done by "chafa". You can also restrict chafa to a particular subset of characters, thus "chafa --symbols vhalf" makes catimg redundant. Then, for completeness, you can abuse Braille at U+2800, which gives a 2x4 fixed grid (monochromatic or with ZX-Spectrum colors). Needing to ANSI codes means the result can be posted in mail or other plain-text media. My implementation, as pointed out in ITP#856033 discussion like this, turned out to be redundant with imagemagic's ｢convert foo.png foo.ubrl｣. Thus: is there anything viu does better than the above tools? Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ According to recent spams, "all my email accounts are owned ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ by a hacker". So what's the problem? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
