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 
>

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