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- Hacker News
- "Don't worry, all of these dependencies are worth it."
That had me in stitches.
- It's very interesting to learn about the newly proposed glyph protocol [1] in the linked blog post. I was bemoaning the lack of exactly this here about 6 months ago [2]!
[1] https://rapha.land/introducing-glyph-protocol-for-terminals/
by joouha - Rip Terry. May you never be forgotten.
edit: But your spirit lives on ( based on the project:D )
- Terminal is slowly becoming a full featured web browser.by amelius
- Seems... really good?!
Questions:
- rendering capabilities of this seem like it should also be able to handle 2d well, or am I mistaken? every solution I see for getting high quality 2d images or rasterization in terminal is all pretty bad. Could this do better than other solutions or is there a fundamental limit being hit somewhere?
- What happens with ssh given that this is gpu accelerated?
by sigseg1v - I like this. No reason the terminal should only support text. Data science notebooks show one way the terminal can evolve. Lots of interesting stuff happening in this space, with Kitty probably being the most aggressive innovator here [1]. I'm not sure there is an overall vision, though.by noelwelsh
- UNIX still trying to catch up with Xerox workstations in the REPL experience, or general Lisp machines for that matter.
Inline graphics from 1981,
by pjmlp - A couple of comments here mention using this in VR. Fwiw, years back I played a bit with shallow-3D UIs for software dev. Shallow like within a few cm of a laptop display, to minimize VAC eye strain for all-day use. Think more being able to layer and draw in color, but in 3D, rather than waving arms in a room.
The 3D can be wiggle 3D, or perspective from webcam head/eye tracking, or stereo from shutter glasses, or XR HMDs. Wiggle is easiest - just move the object orientation back and forth. Cute but distracting. Well, cross/parallel-eye gaze is easier, but limited - ok for little UI test swatches. Perspective is more subtle, less intrusive. Can be simple with a head tracker driving a single orientation, or go all in with eye pose (for distance) and window locations, to do an accurate 3D render. App stereo pairs can be "I give you two windows Left/Right-eye", or "alternating L/R view, labeled/synced/polled". Other possibilities. Many of these need window system/manager/desktop support. I found a lot of leverage in using a stack of electron and X.
It's fun to displace text in 3D. Like colorization, but more so. And if you don't mind a cluttered appearance, you can add secondary information layers segregated by depth. And... etc. Emacs with characters-have-a-depth finally gets you something LispMs didn't have. Fun aside, to explore possibilities with code text, with anything not inherently 3D, far easier to prototype UX with fg/bg colors, fonts, unicode, and animation. Or in browser, overlaid divs and transparent 2D/3D canvases.
by mncharity