SIXEL is a bitmap graphics format for terminals and printers introduced by
Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a
terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to show a SIXEL image file,
all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal.
- Terminal requirements:
- Several of DEC VT series, VT240/VT241/VT330/VT340/VT282/VT284/VT286/VT382
RLogin (Japanese terminal emulator)
tanasinn (Works with firefox)
mlterm (Works on each of X, win32/cygwin and framebuffer version)
XTerm (configured with --enable-sixel-graphics and launched with "-ti
340" option)
yaft / yaftx (Works on framebuffer / X11 environment)
DECterm
Kermit for DOS
WRQ Reflection
ZSTEM
img2sixel(1), sixel2png(1),
All About SIXELs, Sep 29, 1990:
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ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt
Displaying Sixel Image Files, 2014:
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http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html