Two image viewing utilities for the terminal. Both of them can display images in only 16 colors.
carve- uses content-aware image resizing before displaying the imageimg- uses regular image resizing before displaying the image
| Original PNG image | In a VT100 compatible terminal emulator, using seam carving for content-aware image resizing |
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| Original PNG image | In carve (wonky, but higher information density) |
In img (may look better, but retains less information |
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With Go 1.17 or later:
go install github.com/xyproto/carveimg/cmd/img@latest
go install github.com/xyproto/carveimg/cmd/carve@latest
- The image resizing is done with
github.com/esimov/caire. - The palette reduction is done with
github.com/xyproto/palgen. - The image reszing may be very slow for larger images.
- The image resizing is done with
golang.org/x/image/drawand theCatmullRomkernel. - The palette reduction is done with
github.com/xyproto/palgen.
- Version: 1.4.6
- License: BSD-3
- Author: Alexander F. Rødseth <xyproto@archlinux.org>