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		hedora on March 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sixel: A terminal bitmap graphics format from the ... How did they do the shading of the wikipedia logo in the article? It doesn’t appear to be dithered.

flohofwoe on March 14, 2023 [–]

Sixels is a paletted bitmap format, and (AFAIK) some terminals support more than 256 colors (e.g. see the screenshot in the readme here: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel). But I guess the Wikipedia logo looks just fine with 256 colors.

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