Comment by 🚀 stack

What is a chafa?

2024-04-20 · 2 years ago

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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...