The Ruby Blocky Image Viewer

tl;dr: terminal image displayer that’s a shameless re-write of icat for Ruby

Summary

So you want to see an image, but don’t wanna leave your precious command-line?

jp2a makes you sad...

img2txt is just weird...

There is a better way!

Features

• True color support!
• Higher definition output (2 pixels per character!)
• Standard definition output (1 pixel per character!)
• Width and height controls!

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby-blocky-image-viewer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ruby-blocky-image-viewer

Usage

If you just wanna view an image checkout:

$ biv --help

Otherwise have a look at the source code, especially Biv::Viewer:

puts Biv::Viewer.new(“my-image.png”).to_s

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/bogwonch/ruby-blocky-image-viewer/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request