image is translated pixel for pixel to ascii chars
unicode chars to be exact
chars that can be displayed in a terminal
using upper half block and lower half block
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_Elements
using foreground and background color
effectively two pixels in one ascii char
only rgb color which may or may not be supported by your terminal
alpha channel is expected to be either 0 or 255
python3
PIL/Pillow
cat image from https://www.favicon.cc/?action=icon&file_id=851700
mario https://www.favicon.cc/?action=icon&file_id=962351
Copyright Lesmana Zimmer [email protected]
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