OK I had the distinct impression that there were now tools that could “rasterize” images to characters (similar to #AAlib and #libcaca), but with more aggressive usage of #Unicode characters to achieve better results. I have tried #img2txt from libcaca with the #utf8 option but it's still not satisfactory compared to what I remember, even for grayscale, so … which one was it?
Also #TIL that this is called #semigraphics or #pseudographics
You could formulate the question otherwise, like if you are writing software, on a scale of 1 to 4, how pointless or harmful is it? And define pointless... like, #libcaca is uber-pointless but probably not harmful, compared to a video game, casino software, social media, emissions-cheating firmware, autonomous weapons?
@freeschool
Don't forget
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL
I know about this one because of #libcaca codec
@GNUxeava
That sounds like a gui or a tiling-window-manager user problem. I'm stuck here in ascii land where streaming vids look like obscure Picasso art.
try : mpv -vo caca somevideoyoudownloaded.mp4
Might need to search for #mpv or #libcaca . A similar demo can be made in #VLC in one of it's advanced settings.
Cegorach
Oblomov
Jérôme Carretero
LucifarGundam
joancatala
mostly harmless