Display any image in your terminal, using ANSI color codes
This is greatly inspired by catimg. catimg
is way faster, but it did not handle the .ico files so I wrote my own
version in Ruby. It handles any filetype convert (ImageMagick) can handle.
I use the output of convert ./path/to/file.jpg txt:- to get the list of all
pixels in the file with their rgb value. I then convert the rgb values to ANSI
codes and display them.
I also use the special UTF8 character ▄ to display two pixels at once (the top
one uses the background color and the bottom one the foreground color) to keep
the ratio. If the file is too big to be displayed in the terminal screen,
it will resize it first.