sixel

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

The sixel graphics data‐format is a used by a number computer‐terminals to do things such as:

drawing images on a computer‐terminal display screen, and
• load a into a 's (DRCS) memory.

The word sixel is short for “six pixels” — a reference to the way the sixel data‐format encodes a bitmap image.

Computer Terminals

Some computer‐terminals, whose support for sixel graphics included being able to draw sixel images to the display screen, include:

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Sixel Data Format

A sixel image is sent in‐band to a computer‐terminal using escape‐sequence style control‐codes.

The beginning of a sixel image's data is marked by the usual DEC device‐control‐string (DCS) of:

	␛P

Or in decimal:

	27 80

Or in hexadecimal:

	0x1B 0x50

Or in binary:

	0b00011011 0b01010000

Related to sixels are:

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