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📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2018-07-10 · latest 2026-04-16

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  1. …happen. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391781 [3] https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/issues/78 [4] https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html#xterm_359 [5]…
    comment by antisol · 2026-04-16 · in Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  2. …of a frame and then shelling to something called chafa to covert to nice terminal-friendly video. https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
    comment by chadrs · 2026-03-16 · in Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg
  3. …[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421045 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_mare [3] https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa [4] https://github.com/alexharri/website/tree/master/src
    comment by aleyan · 2026-01-17 · in ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  4. …do not account for glyph shape. It reminds me of how chafa uses an 8x8 bitmap for each glyph: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/blob/master/chafa/interna... There's a lot of nitty gritty concerns I haven't dug into: how to make it fast,…
    comment by wonger_ · 2026-01-17 · in ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  5. See also https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa which is an image -> unicode library written in C. I built it into my BBS so users can embed images in their posts. Some turn out better than others but it gives the board a unique feel at least.
    comment by sekao · 2022-08-05 · in ANSIArt
  6. …https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ http://www.torchsoft.com/en/aas_information.html https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/ Here's some ANSI and BBS scene stuff: https://www.asciiarena.se/ https://16colo.rs/ https://www.ansilove.org/…
    comment by matrix8967 · 2022-06-28 · in Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
  7. See also... https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa
    comment by sekao · 2021-12-04 · in Super Pyxelate converts images to 8-bit pixel art
  8. …the unicode rendering engine from chafa to improve the output quality: https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa
    comment by Klasiaster · 2019-07-07 · in MapSCII: World map renderer for your console
  9. …chafa: https://hpjansson.org/blag/2019/01/07/the-worst-ansi-rendere... https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
    comment by Klasiaster · 2019-02-03 · in ASCII generator: image to text, image to image, video to video
  10. The algorithm used in chafa for img→unicode would improve the image quality: https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa/
    comment by Klasiaster · 2018-07-10 · in Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser