Cool Fim Trick

I was reading about the [Dyatlov pass incident][dpi-wikipedia] on a newspaper.

Apparently a study from this year (2021) suggests the cause of the incident was a slab avalanche.

I’ve found this site and it also has some pictures from the cameras found on site.

I’ve saved a couple and used Fim to display them.

I took a look at the manual for Fim and found the -t.option:

-t, --no-framebuffer
    Fim will not use the framebuffer but the aalib (ASCII art) driver
    instead (if you are curious, see (info aalib)).
    If aalib was not enabled at tompile time,
    fim will work without displaying images at all.

So after trying it out i can say I’m impressed, really pretty results.

Take this picture for example:

This is what happens:

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Isn’t this pretty?

It uses the AA-lib to display the image in a nice ascii art format.

Nice :)