Drawing image in your terminal whithout node-canvas,and the outputing image is more clear than using picture-tube.

Imaging, let your terminal outputs more interesting.

See also https://github.com/switer/imagingp module that render PNG images fast and neat.

For node with npm:

windows

npm install imaging -g

Mac/Linux

sudo npm install imaging -g

imaging https://www.google.com.hk/images/srpr/logo11w.png

Use in mac/linux sometime need sudo:

sudo imaging https://www.google.com.hk/images/srpr/logo11w.png

options

Set image width：

imaging 1.png -w 20
## or
imaging 1.png --width 20

Set offset left：

imaging 1.png -l 20
## or
imaging 1.png --left 20

custom pixel char：

imaging 1.png -c @
## or
imaging 1.png --char #
## if error or don't take effect, try wrapping the char with ""
imaging 1.png -c "*"

imaging char names:

• square "▇"
• circle "●"
• rectangle" "█"

imaging 1.png -c square equal imaging 1.png -c ▇

var imaging = require('imaging');
imaging.draw('1.jpg', function (resp, status) {
    /*
      if status == 'success', resp is the image charater string.
      conols.log(resp) to render the image in your terminal
      else if if status == 'fail', resp is the error message
    */
    console.log(status);
    console.log(resp);
});

// limit the width for rendering
imaging.draw('1.jpg', { width: 50}, function (resp, status) {
    /*
      if status == 'success', resp is the image charater string.
      conols.log(resp) to render the image in your terminal
      else if if status == 'fail', resp is the error message
    */
    (status == 'success') && console.log(resp);
});

imaging.draw(path, [options], callback) //path could be a remote link or local resource

options: object

• width - the width of image for rendering
• left - set the left offset of image
• char - set the char as pixel of rendered image

callback: function (resp, status)

• status == "fail" - resp: error msg
• status == "success" - resp:imaging string in color format

Source image:

Draw into terminal:

Now, it dosn't support rendering images with batch processing. So when you want to render multiple images, only the way to imaging image for each.