This is easy way to display images on a terminal using Python. The module is called climage and has the following features:
- convert images to NASI Escape codes
- allow 8/16/256 bit color codings
- provide ASCII/Unicode support
Installation
$ pip install climage
Usage (in Python)
convert(filename, is_unicode=False, is_truecolor=False, is_256color=True, is_16color=False, is_8color=False, width=80, palette=”default”)
Parameters:
filename : Name of image file.
is_unicode : If true, conversion is done in unicode format, otherwise ASCII characters will be used.
is_truecolor : Whether to use RGB colors in generation, if supported by terminal. Defaults False.
is_256color : Whether to use 256 colors encoding. Defaults True.
is_16color : Whether to use 16 colors encoding. Defaults False.
is_8color : Whether to use first 8 System colors. Defaults False.
width : Number of blocks of console to be used. Defaults to 80.
palette : Sets mapping of RGB colors scheme to system colors. Options are : [“default”, “xterm”, “linuxconsole”, “solarized”, “rxvt”, “tango”, “gruvbox”, “gruvboxdark”]. Default is “default”.
to_file(infile, outfile, is_unicode=False, is_truecolor=False, is_256color=True, is_16color=False, is_8color=False, width=80, palette=”default”)
Parameters:
infile : The name/path of image file.
outfile : File in which to store ANSI encoded string.
Links:
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/display-images-on-terminal-using-python/
- https://pypi.org/project/climage/