FsImageToSixel.Tool

A .NET tool for converting standard images into Sixel format, which produces multicolored, pixelated images displayable in terminals that support it (e.g., Windows Terminal 1.22+).

For more information on Sixel, check out the Wikipedia article.

Dependencies

1. SixLabors.ImageSharp – A powerful image processing library by SixLabors. ImageSharp is split-licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and a commercial license. For this open-source project, it qualifies for usage under the Apache 2.0 license, as it meets the criteria for open-source software use.
2. System.CommandLine – A command-line parser library from Microsoft, licensed under the MIT License.

Examples

# Converts a PNG to a sixel image and display it in the terminal fsimg2sixel -i theimage.png # Converts a PNG to a sixel image and writes it to a text file fsimg2sixel -i theimage.png -o sixel.txt # Prints the help fsimg2sixel --help