png2mirc

png2mirc allows you to share your pixel art creations with your IRC friends.

png2mirc has been tested with Weechat.

Just Check out this Rainbow Dash PixelArt you can send your to your friends on IRC:

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Pillow
• Gimp or other Image Editor

Installation

sudo apt-get -y install python3 pip
sudo pip3 install Pillow
git clone --recursive https://www.github.com/lillypad/png2mirc.git
cd png2mirc
sudo cp png2mirc.py /usr/bin/png2mirc

Creating Art

• Open Gimp
• From Gimp open palette.xcf
• Create a new file the size you like recommended is 40x40
• Right click "Background" layer and click "Add Alpha Channel"
• Zoom in all the way then under View Menu click Show Grid then click Configure Grid under the Image menu to 1px by 1px
• Use colorpicker to select from the palette the colors you like to create your new image
• All colors not in the colorpalette if put in by mistake will show up as white by default

Sharing Art on IRC

• Open weechat
• Join IRC Channel
• Run /exec -o -norc png2mirc -i examples/rainbowdash_fly.png

If you wish to test your art in IRC before you share it on a public channel with your friends a submodule for hircd is included to run hircd do:

cd hircd/
python2.7 hircd.py --start --foreground --verbose -a 127.0.0.1 -p 6677

Now you should be able to connect in Weechat by doing:

/connect 127.0.0.1/6677
/join #test
/exec -o -norc png2mirc -i examples/rainbowdash_fly.png

hircd is not designed to be secure as it is is just for testing please keep this in mind.

Files Included

• scripts/mirc.sh - Shows MIRC Color Palette in IRC
• xterm.sh - Shows xterm-256color standard palette in terminal
• examples/*.xcf - Gimp project file examples
• examples/*.png - Example Images
• examples/*.mirc - MIRC escaped images
• examples/*.ansi - xterm-256color equivelent ansi art
• palette/palette.lst - Contains MIRC color codes and their associated RGBA values
• palette/palette.xcf - Gimp project file to use as a color swatch for your creations

MIRC Palette:

You should be happy I made this as MIRC doesn't even provide a full list of MIRC to RGB values on their site:

• MIRC-Official-Color-Reference

Yes, this means I made scripts/mirc.sh then stole the RGB values from the screen one by one.

Features

• Converts PNG to MIRC escape codes
• Ability to use your own 10x10 palette for RGB comparison values

Features to Come

• Color Approximation (Colors not in palette will pick closes neighbor to MIRC RGB color codes)
• Currently has RGBA support only will soon have RGB PNG support
• Image Resize

Example Screenshots