[Warning: this is a reply to a 5-month-old post.] Wed 2017-08-30 13:51:58 UTC, Erik Bray: > > Hi, > > Has anyone here tried playing around with the SIXEL graphics format > for Sage plots before? SIXEL [1] is a graphics format that was > supported by VT300 terminals for displaying images in the terminal, > and many terminal emulators support it. For example, gnuplot has long > been able to display plots in SIXEL format (see attached screenshot), > and I've used in the past for displaying images in the terminal (there > are programs that can convert existing images to SIXEL and cat them). > > I just wonder if anyone's found a workaround for this to work in Sage, > rather than have plots pop up in a separate image viewer. > > ISTM if nothing else, this could be done in a hackish way by taking > images output by Sage, pass them through a SIXEL converter, and then > print the SIXEL data. I haven't tried fully integrating this, but > simply print()ing a SIXEL image from Python works from the Sage REPL, > at least on my terminal. > > Surely I'm not the only one who's tried this? > > Erik > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
Sorry I didn't reply when you wrote this, the last days of August and first days of September I was busy moving to Mexico... I was amazed by your post and screenshot, never having thought such integration of graphics in the terminal was possible. Having this for the Sage REPL would be wonderful. Please open a ticket and/or write instructions in a blog post or a wiki page. Samuel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
