R.L. Dane    🍵 Apr 7

Say what you like, I think the #XPM format is kind of beautiful.

/* XPM */ static char *Apple_Menubar_Logo[] = { /* columns rows colors chars-per-pixel */ "11 14 7 1 ", " c None", ". c #DD1C00", "X c #FF6600", "o c #01BB00", "O c #FFFF01", "+ c #002FDD", "@ c #FF2C99", /* pixels */ " oo ", " oo ", " o ", " ooo ooo ", " oooooooooo", "OOOOOOOOO ", "OOOOOOOOO ", "XXXXXXXXX ", "XXXXXXXXXX ", "...........", " @@@@@@@@@@", " @@@@@@@@@@", " ++++++++ ", " ++ ++ " };

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap

X PixMap - Wikipedia

Show threadTim Chase

@rl_dane Hah, I used it at one point as a visualization output format for letter-pair frequency, running various corpora through awk(1), then emitting the XPM data with brightness-values at each letter-pair coordinate in a 26x26 grid. 😆

#xpm is pretty great!

Apr 7 at 11:43pmWeb
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Apr 8

@gumnos

Ha, unix text-based charts. I love it. XD