This seems great! It seems something that should be incorporated in ipython as an option so that Sage could just use it.
Another link: https://github.com/koppa/matplotlib-sixel On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 8:58:27 PM UTC+2, Frédéric Chapoton wrote: > > 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]> 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.
