Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new https://thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (see readme for details). Supports JPG/PNG (possibly others, depending on terminal used) as well as https://thi.ng/pixel pixel buffers (e.g. for dynamically generated images/visualizations)

Ps. The above relies on extended ANSI sequences to submit bitmap data to the terminal. If you're after actual text/character-based image conversion, you can alternatively use the functions provided in https://thi.ng/text-canvas:

https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/packages/text-canvas#image-functions

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