SIXEL(5)

NAME
sixel - SIXEL format

DESCRIPTION
SIXEL is a bitmap graphics format for terminals and printers introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to show a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal.

Terminal requirements:
    Several of DEC VT series, VT240/VT241/VT330/VT340/VT282/VT284/VT286/VT382
    RLogin (Japanese terminal emulator)
    tanasinn (Works with firefox)
    mlterm (Works on each of X, win32/cygwin and framebuffer version)
    XTerm (configured with --enable-sixel-graphics and launched with "-ti 340" option)
    yaft / yaftx (Works on framebuffer / X11 environment)
    DECterm
    Kermit for DOS
    WRQ Reflection
    ZSTEM

SEE ALSO
img2sixel(1), sixel2png(1),

All About SIXELs, Sep 29, 1990:

    ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt

Displaying Sixel Image Files, 2014:

    http://rullf2.xs4all.nl/sg/doc.html