ansi-gif

View gifs in your terminal. 100% JS, no ffmpeg.

Supports full frame and subframe rendering™

Given that this is a new library and there are many configurations of GIFs out there, we may not catch every edge case. Please save any example files you have with issues (and file them)!

As simple as: ansi-gif <file or url>

Installation

npm install -g ansi-gif

Usage

Usage: ansi-gif [options] <target>

Options:
  --version         Show version number                                [boolean]
  -a, --alphabet    The character set to use when rendering this gif
              [choices: "solid", "variant1", "variant2", "variant3", "variant4",
      "ultra-wide", "wide", "hatching", "bits", "binary", "greyscale", "blocks"]
  -b, --bit-depth   the number of colors to use              [choices: 4, 8, 32]
  -w, --width       the width of the output
  -d, --difference  the color difference algorithm to use in 8bit mode
    [choices: "euclideanDistance", "classic", "ratioDistance", "classicByValue",
             "CIE76Difference", "closestByIntensity", "rankedChannel", "simple",
                                                                     "original"]
  -h, --help        Show help                                          [boolean]

Examples:
  ansi-gif /path/to/my.gif                  render the gif
  ansi-gif  ~/Desktop/nyan.gif -b 4         4bit nyan cat on the desktop
  ansi-gif  ~/Desktop/nyan.gif -a           8bit nyan cat on the desktop
  ultra-wide -w 100 -b 8 -d rankedChannel
  ansi-gif  ~/Desktop/nyan.gif -b 32        32bit nyan cat on the desktop

©2019 - Abbey Hawk Sparrow

Examples

try a few of the built in samples like:

npm run mj-popcorn

npm run mr-sparkle

npm run maxell

npm run nyan-cat

npm run beetlejuice-caseworker

npm run afro-ninja

npm run peanuts

npm run moon

npm run geometry

Enjoy,

• Abbey Hawk Sparrow