The Ruby Blocky Image Viewer
tl;dr: terminal image displayer that’s a shameless re-write of icat for Ruby

Summary
So you want to see an image, but don’t wanna leave your precious command-line?
jp2a
makes you sad...

img2txt
is just weird...

There is a better way!


Features
- True color support!
- Higher definition output (2 pixels per character!)
- Standard definition output (1 pixel per character!)
- Width and height controls!
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'ruby-blocky-image-viewer'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install ruby-blocky-image-viewer
Usage
If you just wanna view an image checkout:
$ biv --help
Otherwise have a look at the source code, especially Biv::Viewer
:
puts Biv::Viewer.new(“my-image.png”).to_s
Contributing