Comment by 💀 requiem
Some more notes:
- If no gallery name is provided, it defaults to current date for gallery title and retains original file names.
- You can supply several image file types, comma separated.
- Feel free to change the chafa settings in the script. Currently it is set to output 240 colours, dithered, foreground only (for better compatbility), at a size of a 128 characters (felt the right mix). See the chafa man page for additional settings.
And let me know what you think.
2024-04-20 · 2 years ago
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What is a chafa?
It's in the links, but Chafa is a command line tool to convert images to ANSI / ASCII art for displaying in the terminal. Pretty neat. Many Gemini clients like Offpunk rely on it.
Original Post
A script to generate Chafa galleries for gmi — Hey! I can only take credit for the idea, but I am sharing a little script cobbled together with artificial help that generates a little .gmi ANSI gallery out of images in a directory. An example: $ ls something.jpeg something_else.jpeg testing.jpeg another.jpeg somefile.jpeg $ ./chafa-gmi-gallery-gen.sh Enter gallery name or leave blank to use...