termi

Images in your terminal, using ANSI and Unicode. Inspired by shellpic.

Examples

Running termi kurisu.png in a terminal that supports 256 colors will result in this:

If you're using one of true color capable terminals, you can also run termi kurisu.png --depth=24:

It works in dark terminals, too:

You can also use custom palettes if you want.

You can even use it to display GIF animations:

Installing

• sudo python3 setup.py install, or
• yaourt -S termi-git in Arch Linux.

Differences to shellpic

• Quantization: while shellpic just maps the pixel color to keycodes on the fly, termi tries to do better and quantizes the images to target palette as a separate step. This allows techniques such as dithering, which enhance visual quality. (This matters only for non-true-color output.)
• Customizable palette: this can matter a lot; shellpic doesn't let you pass your own color palette, termi does. With some effort, this enables you to improve color matching no matter what terminal you're on.
• Smoother animations: animations do not produce ghost frame between the loops.
• Outright glitches: for some reason, shellpic renders a ghost line on my terminal on the right edge of the output.

To show most of problems mentioned above, here's what 256-color output from shellpic looks on my URxvt:

I decided to roll my own solution for reasons mentioned above, but also because it's fun!