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samatman on Jan 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Buy stuff through your terminal

Cute!

You can get a significantly higher resolution with Unicode Block Elements[1] and a half tone foreground-background algorithm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements

FriedPickles on Jan 25, 2014 [–]

Ahh very cool. I'll have to add support for this to ihmage.com

heptal on Jan 26, 2014 | [–]

Thanks for the credit. I've also got animated gif support somewhere in those gists (and a server for generating them written in Julia).

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