Barf

Displays images in your terminal. There are many existing utilities to accomplish this, but they're all way too complex.

$ gem install barf

$ barf Profile.jpg

• Can display anything supported by imagemagick including web resources.
• Applies the 256 color extended Ansi color palette with dithering.
• Multithreading is used to speed up the tco color operations.

$ barf https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/382216

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/duffyjp/barf.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.