man img2sixel shows about -d option as the following:
-d DIFFUSIONTYPE, --diffusion=DIFFUSIONTYPE
choose diffusion method which used with color reduction.
DIFFUSIONTYPE is one of them:
auto -> choose diffusion type automatically (default)
none -> do not diffuse
fs -> Floyd-Steinberg method
atkinson -> Bill Atkinson's method
jajuni -> Jarvis, Judice & Ninke
stucki -> Stucki's method
burkes -> Burkes' method
a_dither -> positionally stable arithmetic dither
a_dither -> positionally stable arithmetic xor based dither
man img2sixel shows about -d option as the following:
It looks the last one should be x_dither, not a_dither, as img2sixel -H says. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/5db717dfef6fa327cd4025e7352550f63d20699c/converters/img2sixel.1#L99 https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/5db717dfef6fa327cd4025e7352550f63d20699c/converters/img2sixel.c#L173