Shellpic

-ASCII-art is so 2013.

Shellpic uses escape codes to display images in a terminal, IRC or NUTS client.

Examples

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/master/img/shell8.png
    :alt: Lenna displayed with a color depth of 8 bits.

Running shellpic <image> in a terminal that supports 256-colors will get you something that looks like the image above.

If you happen to have a terminal that is capable of showing true colors, you can use the --shell24-switch to enable 24bit output. It will look something like this:

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/master/img/shell24.png
    :alt: Lenna displayed with a color depth of 24 bits.

Shellpic can also be used with irc-clients. Run the script from your client and use the --irc-switch, the result will depend on the client used. This is how it looks in xchat:

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/master/img/irc.png
    :alt: Lenna displayed in 16 colors by xchat.

The --nuts-switch will do the same, but for NUTS talkers. This is how it looks in konsole:

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/master/img/nuts.png
    :alt: Farnsworth and imp displayed in 16 colors in a NUTS talker

The --tinymux-switch will also do that, generating 256 color images for TinyMUX servers.

Use the --animate (show the animation once, then exit) or --loop (animate and loop forever) to animate gifs. There is a noticable difference between between terminals of how smooth the animation looks. KDE's konsole seems to handle it well.

.. image:: https://raw.github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/master/img/imp_shell24.gif
    :alt: An animated gif shown in a terminal.

Installation

You should have Pillow_ (>=2.6) and python development files installed. Shellpic works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4. It will not work with Python 2.5 or 3.2.

.. _Pillow: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow

If you have PIP installed:

.. code:: sh

sudo pip install Shellpic

If you do not have PIP or want the bleeding edge version of Shellpic:

.. code:: sh

# clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/larsjsol/shellpic.git
# optional - run tests
./shellpic/tests/run_tests.sh
# install the package
cd shellpic
sudo python setup.py install

Changelog

See CHANGES.rst <https://github.com/larsjsol/shellpic/blob/master/CHANGES.rst>_