A simple header-only function to render images to terminal using the sixel protocol.
This should compile using any standard-compliant C++20 compiler, using a command such as:
g++ -std=c++20 demo.cpp -o demo
To work, this requires a sixel-capable terminal, such as:
- on Linux: wezterm, xterm, mlterm
- on macOS: wezterm, iTerm2
- on Windows: wezterm, minTTY, Windows Terminal (preview)
- copy the
terminal_graphics.hfile into your project - include the file in the relevant code file
- add rendering calls to your code
- run in a sixel-capable terminal (see list above)
See the demo program for example usage. This produces the output shown in the screenshot below.