term-px

Write pixels to the terminal using ANSI colors and half-characters.

WHAT??!?!

I'm kinda cheating. Using special characters (namely ▀ █ and ▄) we're able to write an approximation of actual pixels to the terminal.

This library ony exposes one function, which creates the pairs of "pixels" based on two rgb values.

var termPx = require('term-px');

// default usage
var pixels = termPx([0,0,0],[255,255,255])
  => <black on top and white on bottom>

// provide an options object with "format" set to "rgb" for use in full color terminals
var rgbPixels = termPx([0x9A,0x00,0xC4],[0xBB,0x00,0xC4],{format:"rgb"});
//  => "\u001b[38;2;154;0;196;48;2;187;0;196m▀\u001b[0m"
//  <two slightly different purples>

// set "reset" to false to not reset the color at the end
var unClosedRgbPixels = termPx([0x9A,0x00,0xC4],[0xBB,0x00,0xC4],{format:"rgb",reset:false});

The gif above is available in img-test.js