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Inline graphics from 1981,
https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk?t=376
also smalltalk
we used oberon in one class in university. i don't remember much unfortunately.
more like theopneustos
[1] https://rapha.land/introducing-glyph-protocol-for-terminals/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805072
That had me in stitches.
[1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/protocol-extensions/
https://git.theresno.cloud/panki/kglobe
[1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o48KzPa42_o
Joking apart, the whole thing was both an exercise in madness and genius. Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy. We will never know...
[1]: github.com/eza-community/eza
This might overtake “a haiku+macOS mashup” as my idealised computing future.
What's overlooked here are the insane political and economic forces that were required to get anywhere close to the (sort of!) consistent implementation of plain text we have today. These projects try to piggyback off that success yet only contribute back harm. We have standards for a reason.
I'm not saying people can't have fun, but don't try to start a cyberpunk-inspired revolution and then blame the side effects of groupthink and software rot on everyone else when it goes sideways.
https://hyper.is/
Super slow, but I guess thats what web devs want.
https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
Which is what Claude Code CLI uses (or was using?) and it caused many issues such as flickering, thrashing, and latency.
Questions:
- rendering capabilities of this seem like it should also be able to handle 2d well, or am I mistaken? every solution I see for getting high quality 2d images or rasterization in terminal is all pretty bad. Could this do better than other solutions or is there a fundamental limit being hit somewhere?
- What happens with ssh given that this is gpu accelerated?
Is that what you're looking for?
edit: But your spirit lives on ( based on the project:D )
You could also do really cool text highlights by working with light sources and shader effects
Another feature I'm looking for is smooth scrolling when you hit enter. I've had debates before where they claim it's not possible, that the text must jump one line. But I think it's possible, by shifting the frame buffer up.
[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341683
https://youtu.be/dFUlAQZB9Ng?si=3fE-vE8xF5rSVhRR
> When I first got introduced to [TempleOS], I was shocked and impressed by the flashy colors, graphical sprites and uncomprehensible UI. There are so many things that makes it so unique, weird and fascinating at the same time, somehow.... Basically, the command line becomes the direct interface for everything. You can write code, interact with the system and render graphics all in the same place, which is why TempleOS feels so unusual compared to conventional operating systems.
I think this could be a really cool approach. I enjoy tools like Chafa, imgcat, etc but something always feels a little clunky about the separation between text and images. Paradoxically having text and non-text all jumbled up like this feels better somehow.
Then I added WebGL and WebGPU renderers [1], including support for Kitty.
Then I see this this project on a Monday morning... so now I have to implement Ratty Graphics Protocol?!?! [2].
ETA: I looked into this; Ghostty would need patched to support Ratty since Ghostty-Web now defers APC handling there. It would also require pulling in a 3D engine like three.js or otherwise implementing file parsing, lighting, etc. Finally, since local filenames are part of the protocol, a browser would need some file resolver helper, either to get the data over the APC channel or via a URL.
[1] https://github.com/NimbleMarkets/ghostty-web/tree/nm-webgpu
[2] https://github.com/orhun/ratty/blob/main/protocols/graphics....
That's how I read images under a remote pubnix with tut using a Mastodon account over plain SSH.
Chafa and XTerm. It works.
Brilliant. The dream lives on! This is the best form of paying respects.
It's walking a fine line between madness and genius, and who knows if it'll ever be practical, but more important is the sense of wonder and "fuck yeah" as King Terry expressed so eloquently.