I'm playing w/ 256-color xterm colors and UTF-8 for.. reasons. ░▒ blends of the 6^3 color grid yield 6036 colors;
more mixed w/ the greyscale ramp. Add the base 256 color set w/ Block Elements (▙▂▚) for sub-char-size pixels, bloom, and dither for a libcaca/libtcod clone?
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Replying to @kmett
Why limit yourself to block characters? There must sometimes be ASCII or UTF-8 characters which are better approximations of a block of pixels than the block elements...
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Replying to @propensive @kmett
(One good answer is that it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to find the exact foreground/background/character combination which is perceptually "best".)
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I started w/ just quarter block elems @ 4 taps per glyph. Then tried including 5 and 6/8ths vert/hor glyphs to trade error in pairs of taps against the other. W/ 64 taps/glyph, I get that for free and can get the GPU to do it all and can regress to trade accuracy for speed later.
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