Chafa: Terminal Graphics Tool for Displaying Images and Animations as ANSI Art
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Summary
Chafa is a terminal graphics tool that converts pictures and animations into high-quality ANSI art for display in terminal emulators. It improves upon existing terminal graphics packages by using more symbols by default for better quality, while still supporting basic modes like using only the upper half block character. The tool is positioned as a modern solution for terminal-based graphics visualization.
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The power of ANSI X3.64 compels you!
You can get fair results by using only U+2580 (upper half block). Other terminal graphics packages do this, and so can Chafa with chafa --symbols vhalf.
However, Chafa uses more symbols by default, greatly improving quality.
Turn pictures and animations into top-notch terminal graphics and ANSI art.
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