# Owner: glow # KeyID: E65A8520F36AEE13CFE4F56BEB8FE331063A4794 # Key: https://glow.li/pgp # Verify: curl "https://glow.li/posts/pkmn/index.html.asc" | gpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 +++ { "css": ["iframe.css"], "date": "2023-05-25", "description": "I converted all Pokémon sprites to ANSI, so you can view them in you terminal (or browser)", "layout": "post", "sharingimage": "media/images/pkmn-preview", "tags": [ "Technology", "Showcase", "Terminal", "Web_Development", "Project", "CLI" ], "title": "pkmn.li: Pokémon sprites in your terminal" } +++
I converted all Pokémon sprites to ANSI, so you can view them in you terminal (or browser). Get a random Pokémon in your terminal: ``` curl ``` Get a specific Pokémon: ``` curl ``` You can also view it in the browser: []() You will need [true color support](https://github.com/termstandard/colors#fully-supporting) in your terminal. ## Data I am using the [PokeAPI sprites](https://github.com/PokeAPI/sprites) for the images and the [PokeAPI api-data](https://github.com/PokeAPI/api-data) for the flavor text (Pokédex entries). I am generating all Pokémon from the static data in the repositories. I am not actually using the PokeAPI. ## Creating ANSI from the sprites To create the ANSI from the sprites I am using the Rust program [viu](https://github.com/atanunq/viu). Generating html from ANSI is actually rather difficult. Unlike with [](), where I am using [ansi-escape-to-html](https://github.com/neilime/ansi-escapes-to-html) directly in the PHP script, this doesn't work with the Pokémon sprites as they are true color (24 million colors). I haven't found a php package that supports true color ANSI. But the Python package [ansi2html](https://github.com/pycontribs/ansi2html) does, so I am using that. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIyBAEBCgAdFiEE5lqFIPNq7hPP5PVr64/jMQY6R5QFAmSbVIwACgkQ64/jMQY6 R5QP+g/463GzLXx7R12sGIYriuHIIqRQDHWf20au1qKg1Dk4rV6kUjU9sbhEUHWR 2FW9LdcfhbJCqtcNOROrA899QUXcLSggVU3eZZINvtLNkE3sDdKfpLs6uAAz3ZaM XJJFzVJgdjOa+yJLZDWkAO5nS/nk1ftFcceMACiyD8//evokJCmp1hmOrDbsk3mS ik6RS6r2u8UrwQEGuVRlze1aRawMqW1Nqrl0oZdFpCVNNVxfy8tujimPma6m6zp/ 8eeR/EGAXwpkjRLcBEQeAnQm6F6KYOD3OON69EvddlZpoDXZAzOP/Pb2TGIiiT3A P8QVJobLegxCUQRNEqBbdtk3ZU1y07smlaX54oTxOtJL/QC65GcjePinJy8OIAuW k1vfu3qUNYxbS0YgsNThYvs9a2ihRuDtMNduCdzedA+kyQOGsUGx/LpRhE7Daekm t/SKXxEvGrwqCZ5yzJ+EpSWv0rQXuoVgBEm6ewybkKFyf0BuIZYXAYvPf8yDenz2 g88hPIGYd6z6sqQGzr4v2sv5yNzlPbexwbWTUR7KB89WaY3than5UdSyeOfTceXR LRGQdj+YwyVKKy+UlNtSJHI4bvb1cAJs6cZmUabYVEO8ed5mYmod1ZaF25HTz8t7 bNto2DrKDrxjq2V3fSCdsi9MDCj2EbjoPIz0zFHepDWNRBccOg== =X8aO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----