I have created a ticket at https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26544
Le mercredi 31 janvier 2018 16:45:05 UTC+1, Erik Bray a écrit : > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Samuel Lelievre > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > [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. > > Heh, I sort of lost interest when I posted this and nobody else seemed > interested. > > But I agree it would be very nice to have. There's a very nice Python > library that implements this (called, naturally, PySixel > https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel) and I it would be easy to add as a > possible output formatter for 2D graphics in Sage. > > The one downside to this is that not all terminals support this > (though many common ones do), and there's no easy way from within Sage > to detect whether the user's terminal would support it. > It might be possible with some obscure terminal control codes to > detect but I'm not sure. The best way is to just enable it and try > it, and if it works--great--enable it by default as a setting or > something. > > There also seem to be some other terminal-specific proprietary codes > for image rasterization in terminals, but Sixel is a documented DEC > standard and seems to be in a lot of terminals (including xterm, > mintty on Windows, and I'm pretty sure the terminal on OSX). > > Best, > E > -- 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.
