VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
unfortunately sixel seems to be seeing a kind of revival by retrocomputing enthusiasts who want sixel support to become ubiquitous<p>excerpt from my comments yesterday at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35940188" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35940188</a>:<p>&gt; <i>some technologies, like the unix shell, smalltalk, and tcp&#x2F;ip, make hard things easy and easy things possible. others, like retrocomputing, code golf, and malbolge, make easy things hard and hard things impossible. sixel makes easy things hard and hard things impossible, ....</i><p>&gt; <i>that&#x27;s a fun way to spend my time when i choose to (e.g., in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;a&#x2F;390271" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asciinema.org&#x2F;a&#x2F;390271</a> i did real-time 3d graphics in a unicode terminal emulator with braille) but it&#x27;s not how i want my primary user interface to my computer to work</i> ...<p>&gt; <i>sixel is oulipo programming; encoding your graphics in sixel is like writing a novel without the letter &#x27;e&#x27;. btw, a wonderful article about oulipo programming is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;100r.co&#x2F;site&#x2F;working_offgrid_efficiently.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;100r.co&#x2F;site&#x2F;working_offgrid_efficiently.html</a></i><p>&gt; <i>sixel is an art project, not an engineering project </i>