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What’s the point? Why would I want images in my console?

Aardwolf 3y ago
Mathematical plots, seeing the result of AI generated images, seeing the result of image compression algorithms, ... Having these intermixed between the regular scrollable textual output is quite powerful.
ape4 3y ago
Cat photos in /etc/motd
- qingcharles 3y ago
  I was installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 this week and Cortana told me that once I connected to a Wifi network I'd be able to get on with browsing cat photos o_O Microsoft has jokes.
- ilammy 3y ago
  I have literally patched OpenSSH to show me cat pictures instead of the usual randomart.
  - majou 3y ago
    how many cat pictures do you have for this to work?
    - ilammy 3y ago
      As many as necessary and then some. No such thing as too few cat pictures! I use AI to generate the pictures when natural supply is scarce. Cache them locally, address by host key hash. Use the hash as seed for bonus points.
kps 3y ago
$ mpv -vo=sixel ~/Downloads/pirated-hollywood-blockbuster.mkv
drdebug 3y ago
Displaying the result of a command as a graph (histograms, plots) can be more pleasant than a bunch of **** bars. An external graphic window works well too, but displaying in place can be convenient sometimes, no need to click or alt-tab.
TeddyDD 3y ago
This is good example why: https://nitter.it/thingskatedid/status/1316074032379248640#m https://nitter.it/thingskatedid/status/1316074032379248640#m
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Jupyterfying the console
  - eesmith 3y ago
    Eg, Euporie - https://euporie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://euporie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > If you’re working with Jupyter notebooks in a terminal only environment, like an SSH server or a container, or just prefer working in the terminal, then euporie is the tool for you! Uses Kitty ("Currently only the kitty and WezTerm terminals support this"), Sixels, or ansi art. Also supports SVG, HTML, LaTeX, and Markdown.
NeuroCoder 3y ago
Running MRI processing on a super computer and I want to check at a certain point in the pipeline that things went correctly by viewing a couple of slices without downloading a huge brain image
toastal 3y ago
I find it a lot faster to do icat previews than bother opening up an application to find & view a specific image. Even something as lightweight as feh, is still gonna open a split in my window manager which in going to be more jarring than a preview in the terminal.
flohofwoe 3y ago
It would allow portable graphics applications on the terminal, e.g. this C64-emulator-in-Docker only renders ASCII characters, but could be extended with sixels to render graphics (I actually tinkered with this, but didn't get far because most terminals have either none or too slow sixels support): https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64 https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64
Myrmornis 3y ago
Plotting data, mathematical notation.
coderpersson 3y ago
This NES emulator uses Sixels for rendering games over TCP :) https://github.com/henrikpersson/potatis https://github.com/henrikpersson/potatis
numpad0 3y ago
So you can browse Twitter timeline with icons on kernel console on NetBSD/m68k
omoikane 3y ago
Show images inline and have it scroll with other text. This is useful for working with programs that process images. For example, ImageMagick can render a PNG in the terminal like this: convert image.png six:- "six" means use Sixel format, and "-" tells it to write to stdout. Demo (running on cygwin's mintty): https://twitter.com/uguu_org/status/1631207051602042880 https://twitter.com/uguu_org/status/1631207051602042880
daliusd 3y ago
Checking snapshot diffs from git repo. I would love doing that in terminal instead of opening in external app. I have scripts that do diffing and opens results in external app, but I will replace this with in-terminal images when I will find out a way to do that.

Mathematical plots, seeing the result of AI generated images, seeing the result of image compression algorithms, ... Having these intermixed between the regular scrollable textual output is quite powerful.

ape4 3y ago

Cat photos in /etc/motd

qingcharles 3y ago
I was installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 this week and Cortana told me that once I connected to a Wifi network I'd be able to get on with browsing cat photos o_O Microsoft has jokes.
ilammy 3y ago
I have literally patched OpenSSH to show me cat pictures instead of the usual randomart.
- majou 3y ago
  how many cat pictures do you have for this to work?
  - ilammy 3y ago
    As many as necessary and then some. No such thing as too few cat pictures! I use AI to generate the pictures when natural supply is scarce. Cache them locally, address by host key hash. Use the hash as seed for bonus points.

kps 3y ago

$ mpv -vo=sixel ~/Downloads/pirated-hollywood-blockbuster.mkv

drdebug 3y ago

Displaying the result of a command as a graph (histograms, plots) can be more pleasant than a bunch of **** bars. An external graphic window works well too, but displaying in place can be convenient sometimes, no need to click or alt-tab.

TeddyDD 3y ago

This is good example why: https://nitter.it/thingskatedid/status/1316074032379248640#m https://nitter.it/thingskatedid/status/1316074032379248640#m

quickthrower2 3y ago
Jupyterfying the console
- eesmith 3y ago
  Eg, Euporie - https://euporie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://euporie.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > If you’re working with Jupyter notebooks in a terminal only environment, like an SSH server or a container, or just prefer working in the terminal, then euporie is the tool for you! Uses Kitty ("Currently only the kitty and WezTerm terminals support this"), Sixels, or ansi art. Also supports SVG, HTML, LaTeX, and Markdown.

NeuroCoder 3y ago

Running MRI processing on a super computer and I want to check at a certain point in the pipeline that things went correctly by viewing a couple of slices without downloading a huge brain image

toastal 3y ago

I find it a lot faster to do icat previews than bother opening up an application to find & view a specific image. Even something as lightweight as feh, is still gonna open a split in my window manager which in going to be more jarring than a preview in the terminal.

flohofwoe 3y ago

It would allow portable graphics applications on the terminal, e.g. this C64-emulator-in-Docker only renders ASCII characters, but could be extended with sixels to render graphics (I actually tinkered with this, but didn't get far because most terminals have either none or too slow sixels support): https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64 https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64

Myrmornis 3y ago

Plotting data, mathematical notation.

coderpersson 3y ago

This NES emulator uses Sixels for rendering games over TCP :) https://github.com/henrikpersson/potatis https://github.com/henrikpersson/potatis

numpad0 3y ago

So you can browse Twitter timeline with icons on kernel console on NetBSD/m68k

omoikane 3y ago

Show images inline and have it scroll with other text. This is useful for working with programs that process images. For example, ImageMagick can render a PNG in the terminal like this: convert image.png six:- "six" means use Sixel format, and "-" tells it to write to stdout. Demo (running on cygwin's mintty): https://twitter.com/uguu_org/status/1631207051602042880 https://twitter.com/uguu_org/status/1631207051602042880

daliusd 3y ago

Checking snapshot diffs from git repo. I would love doing that in terminal instead of opening in external app. I have scripts that do diffing and opens results in external app, but I will replace this with in-terminal images when I will find out a way to do that.