GNUplot with sixel
Dev tools
terminal graphics
SHOW HN2019
110points
53comments
#436of 2,195 in 2019
Top 20%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.34.
Idea: 1 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Sixel works in tmux and screen
From 1 comment
sixel work under tmux and screen. Check my repository https://github.com/csdvrx which is just cloned from existing branch by arakiken I added screenshots of gnuplot running under…
csdvrx on HN
Objections
Sixel has high overhead for images over SSH
From 1 comment
Not sure if it was implied. Sixel has lots of overhead compared to ascii/Unicode braille art. Using sixel to transmit decent images over ssh is very data-demanding
Eduard on HN
Sixel is an old, crude format
From 1 comment
There seems to be desperate demand for graphics output in terminals. Sixels are a rather crude method dating from a time where terminals were optimized for low bandwidth serial…
sprash on HN
Requests
Add sixel support to more terminal emulators
From 2 comments
Please do not. The best thing you can do it get sixel working on more terminal emulators, particularly Windows ones like PuTTY and TeraTerm. Do any free native windows terminal…
jhallenworld on HNYou're right- more terminals need to implement a common format. I wish VTE and gnome-terminal would add sixel support
csdvrx on HN
Questions
Where are the sources for the modified binaries
From 1 comment
Where are the sources? If you're releasing modified binaries, you're violating the gnuplot license.
dima55 on HN
Alternatives named
iTerm2 image protocol (OSC 1337)
From 1 comment
Sixel is nice (and I use it all the time), but we do have better nowadays. iterm's image handling [1] is superior: it just encodes a modern and more efficient image format and…
thatsaguy on HN
kitty graphics protocol
From 1 comment
It implements its own protocol (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html) to display images. This is something different from serialized OpenGL.
sprash on HN