Display graphical stuff in terminal
These are three protocol that give actual images out, with pixel to pixel control
- sixel
- iterm
- kitty
img2sixel is a classic tool for this.
Konsolo 22 include the sixel support for it now.
Another common technique is to display the half blocks character with colors
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This is basically a large sized pixel, which kinda work on displaying images.
The super old way of displaying a image.
A old tool called FBI can display image by directly write to Frame buffer. This also require the user have the permission to write to frame buffer (being in group video)
A newer version called FIM is made, using the same trick.