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24 alternatives to GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots
GNUplot with sixel support. Contribute to csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot development by creating an account on GitHub.
GNUplot with sixel is a plotting tool that combines traditional data visualization with image embedding and colored terminal output. It lets users create graphs and charts while incorporating images and ANSI color… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. GNUplot with sixel – Mix images, ANSI colors and plots launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics - csdvrx/sixel-tmux
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An awesome iTerm2 backend for Matplotlib, so you can plot directly in your terminal. - daleroberts/itermplot
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This program provides a simple way of visualizing the different regions of a binary file. Written in C, depends only on libpng. Currently (commit 1dd42e3) it is able to generate PNG images that represent various aspects of the binary: - Grayscale: Byte values, 00..FF. - Ascii: Printability of each byte. - Entropy: Of a "block", changed with --block-size. - Histogram: Bar graph of the byte frequencies. - Bigrams: Each point is determined by a pair of bytes. - Dotplot: Measure self-similarity. Image width/height is N^2. In the future, I plan on adding an SDL version that allows the user…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AnyPixels.js▲198A web-friendly way for anyone to build unusual displays
2016 · googlecreativelab.github.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · everydayanchovies.github.io · its alternatives →
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Flexible command line tool to create graphs from CSV data - mcastorina/graph-cli
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN. I've always found writing data visualisation scripts boring and repetitive in data science workflows earlier in my career, so I built this tool to automate it. The available methods are based on my experience in econometrics where histograms and scatterplots were the starting points to check data distributions. The link is to the documentation and the app is freely available at https://visprex.com, and if you're curious about the implementation it's open source at https://github.com/visprex/visprex. I'd appreciate any comments and feedback!
2024 · docs.visprex.com · its alternatives →
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Autoplot▲97Unify data analysis and plotting in one powerful workspace
Jul 2026 · autoplot.ai · its alternatives →
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I do lots of data analyses in the command-line and I was missing a simple utility to plot the output of a command (without having to script it). I like very much the Matplotlib API but I found no CLI to pipe data into it. So, I wrote MatplotCLI, a simple CLI that reads data from the stdin and allows to easily create interactive plots from the command-line. Have a look at the README for examples and recipes. Let me know what you think, thanks! Some examples: $ plt "hist(x,30)" < sample.json $ cat sample.json | plt --no-show "hist(x,30); savefig('myimage.png')" $ plt --no-input " x =…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Just wanted to share with HN a simple/minimal open source Python library that generates SVG files visualizing two dimensional data and distributions, in case others find it useful or interesting. I wrote it as a fun project, mostly because I found that the standard libraries in Python generated unnecessarily large SVG files. One nice property is that I can configure the visuals through CSS, which allows me to support dark/light mode browser settings. The graphs are specified as JSON files (the repository includes a few examples). It supports scatterplots, line plots, histograms,…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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micro-gl▲101Run vector graphics on any computer (without GPU or FPU)
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I was fascinated by this [0] and this video [1]. After many struggles, I finally built this app that traces images using circles similar to what these videos had shown. The most challenging part (to me) is to find a way to convert images to vector lines. I had tried Potrace, but its output is not suitable for my use case: too many small elements share the same border. Potrace's goal is to represent the original image faithfully using vector lines. But I want to trace the image edges. After searching and trying some Potrace alternatives in vain, I finally found my keyword. Surprisingly (to…
2022 · phqb.github.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · martin.varela.fi · its alternatives →
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Grep with colours. Contribute to arsham/blush development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast by default, flexible 2D plotting library. Contribute to wwwtyro/candygraph development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ChartPixel▲80Extract & visualize key insights from raw data in seconds!
2024 · chartpixel.com · its alternatives →
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ac-colors is a reactive JavaScript color library that can freely convert between RGB, HSL, HEX, XYZ, LAB, LCHab, LUV, and LCHuv, as well as handle random color generation and contrast ratio calculation. - vinaypillai/ac-colors
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Small C++ program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters - stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A succinct wrapper for matplotlib. Contribute to Ultraplot/UltraPlot development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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