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fbergama / pigfx

PiGFX is a bare metal kernel for the Raspberry Pi that implements a basic ANSI terminal emulator with the additional support of some primitive graphics functions.
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Sixel graphics possible? #39

Open Kirtai opened 4 years ago

Kirtai commented 4 years ago

Any chance of adding sixel graphics as used by the DEC vt330/340?

chregu82 commented 4 years ago

I had a look at sixel. What do you think would be the benefit? Do you have a specific need for this? As far as I saw, you could only draw a picture at the cursor position, nothing more. We already have more advanced graphic features.

lindoran commented 4 years ago

I don't think there is a large library of vintage titles using Sixel encoding; and there's definitely nothing stopping somebody from wrapping those escape codes in a terminal program running on the host computer... The only thing i can think would be a utility add would be something along the lines of running a x11 session through frame serving running on a seperate server... and certainly there are cheaper and easier methods with a raspberry PI that is just running Linux... why run it on a potentially slower machine with all due respect it seems like needless feature creep to me.

Kirtai commented 4 years ago

It was mostly for tools like lsix and the large array of tools based on libsixel.

Kirtai commented 4 years ago

Oh, there's also the simh emulator, which emulates old mini and mainframes like the PDP10 some of which used sixel. (Along with another graphics api called ReGIS)