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Swordfish90 / cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...
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[Feature Request] ReGIS / vttek support #472

Open ganzuul opened 6 years ago

ganzuul commented 6 years ago

This is very cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmrmj5y72kg

Cool-retro-term is very cool too, and plotting support would make it even cooler.

xterm has this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xterm#Tek_4014_demonstration

zakukai commented 4 years ago

I would love this, personally.

While there's not a lot of modern software that uses ReGIS, I think it (or another graphics terminal system) would be a fun feature to work with in conjunction with the raster CRT visual effects of Cool Retro Term. I think ReGIS is one of the more versatile choices to implement as it supports color and could be adapted to different display resolutions and can draw and fill different shapes.

I think it'd be something to pair with a data rate limiting feature so the user could control how quickly the terminal could draw graphics. It'd be fun to get better performance out of the graphics instructions but the slow data rate is part of that "old terminal" aesthetic.

MuriloucoLouco commented 2 years ago

Agreed. There is a Tektronix emulator: https://github.com/rricharz/Tek4010 which could be used to simulate the graphics. From what i understand, it simply takes a string of formatted characters and displays it as an image. For example, using the xterm tek emulator and the dodekagon.plt demo from rricharz emulator, you only need to cat the file and it display the image.