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How does the tech work? You have something like a 80x50 display and he's emitting 128x128px on that?



By now a lot of ppl have commented on the tech (sixel) but it really annoys me when projects don't explain in simple terms the overall workings in the readme:

"lsix is a shell script that uses ImageMagick convert tool to list images on a shell screen on terminals that support the Sixel format"

There, was that so hard?!? :-(

EDIT: oops, it does mention it, everywhere actually. 1) need to pay more attention but 2) I was just venting because of so many other repos I have to spelunk to have answers for when a few words in the readme would do :-)


It's a VT extension called sixels[1], and requires terminal emulator support.

[1]: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel




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