Chafa converts images or video to text in a terminal, and there are plenty of settings to play with. Made by Hans Petter Jansson.
Tag Archives: terminal
This recent Unicode-proposal about 8-bit character sets is a great initiative, although it only includes platforms that were popular in USA and UK. For now. ;) The uncredited PETSCII Darth Vader is by Ailadi, btw.
Televideo 925 terminal, ca 1982.
Terminal graphics has a new technique to convert pixel images to text. It combines ANSI shading, Unicode blocks and true color and the results can be displayed in a terminal (given the right font and terminal software). More details here.
Made by Tim C. Schröder, 2016.
Kermit was a computer communication project at Columbia University 1981-2011. This image is from the Kermit 95 Gallery:
This is an ancient Heath-19 terminal “graphics” demo. It looks a bit rough in Lucida Console, but that’s only because it does not contain the Heath-19 special graphics characters, which were not added to Unicode until Unicode 3.1, and will take some time to find their way into Unicode fonts such as Lucida Console and Courier New.
Update 2024-01-15: The project is still going and the website has moved to https://www.kermitproject.org
Juggly GIF-animations of ASCII Art JuggleMaster by Mewbies, 2013. From a video of this terminal program in action, with a much smoother flow.
ASCIIQuarium, a perl-script by Robobunny with graphics mostly by Joan Stark. There are screensaver versions for OSX and Win. GIF made from this video by Mewbies.