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plmpsu 19 hours ago [-]
What can Sixel do for me? Any interesting examples?
matt_kantor 19 hours ago [-]
It can display images in your terminal. This is made pretty clear by the first paragraph on the page and also by the Wikipedia article it links to[0]; I'm wondering what else you're asking for.
Feels to me like it violates the only real assumption for a terminal.
NuclearPM 8 hours ago [-]
Which is?
1718627440 7 hours ago [-]
Everything is text.
matt_kantor 7 hours ago [-]
People have been drawing ASCII art since ASCII was invented, and control codes like the bell "character" existed even before computers did.
1718627440 7 hours ago [-]
Which is still linear text all tools work with.
zamadatix 5 hours ago [-]
Tell that to something as fundamental as ASCII 0x07!
plmpsu 19 hours ago [-]
Interesting use cases. Can TUIs benefit? Any prominent examples?
phoyd 16 hours ago [-]
Yazi, If, and Ranger file managers use it to display images inline. Euporie allows you to run a graphical Jupyter console session.
Sixel is a very old standard and has been used to display graphics in terminals since the 80s. It fell out of favor when high-resolution bitmapped desktop environments became mainstream (and affordable), but it is still useful if you are doing remote console work and don't want to set up network hoops with ad hoc HTTP servers just to view a remote diagram.
jimjimjim 13 hours ago [-]
I haven't really tried sixel yet but I run wezterm as a daily driver and it is very convenient to be able to view images in the command line. e.g ls the directory and then run img foo.jpg on the images in the directory without needing to switch windows.
eqvinox 17 hours ago [-]
Is it really worth the effort? What's the use case?
nom 8 hours ago [-]
displaying images in PuTTY is of vital importance to the survival of humanity, obviously
bitwize 17 hours ago [-]
Indeed. The world has moved on to the Kitty graphics protocol.
eqvinox 17 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure I see the use case for that, either. What do people use this for?
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
Sixel is a very old standard and has been used to display graphics in terminals since the 80s. It fell out of favor when high-resolution bitmapped desktop environments became mainstream (and affordable), but it is still useful if you are doing remote console work and don't want to set up network hoops with ad hoc HTTP servers just to view a remote diagram.