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70 lines
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# imcat
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Preview any size image in a terminal window.
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# Platform
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Supports Linux, MacOS and Microsoft Windows 10 terminals.
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## Introduction
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Do you ever find yourself logged into a server, over SSH, but there is no X11 connection.
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And you want to see the contents of an image?
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imcat to the rescue!
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imcat is a 24-bit image viewer that uses ANSI terminal colours to display any image supported by STB.
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It automatically resizes to the width of your terminal, using proper sampling kernels.
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imcat also works on the latest version of Windows 10.
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## Usage
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```
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$ imcat file1 [file2 .. fileN]
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```
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If you want to blend the image with the terminal background, then you need to specify the background color of your terminal. For instance:
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```
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$ export IMCATBG="#dad9cc"
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```
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## Todo
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* Handle alpha-transparency. Requires reading the terminal background colour, somehow. Tricky.
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## Done
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* Correct for aspect ratio of terminal font.
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## Building
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### Unix
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On Linux, just use 'make' to build the imcat binary.
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### Windows 10
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On Windows, you need clang.exe from Visual Studio 2017 to build the imcat.exe binary. It's actually quite hard to get that compiler working, so you may just as well grab the pre-built <A HREF="https://stolk.org/imcat/imcat.exe">imcat.exe</A> binary.
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## License
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* [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
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## Authors
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[Bram Stolk](http://stolk.org).
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[stb_image.h](http://nothings.org/stb_image.h) is by Sean Barrett et al.
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## Acknowledgements
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A shout out to [Frogtoss](http://github.com/mlabbe) for the idea and help. Thanks!
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## Gallery
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