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Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by yagizdagabak » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:31 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #26

Terminal is slowly becoming a full featured web browser.

i have been waiting for this.

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by the_gipsy » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:37 PM UTC

sigseg1v wrote: post #14

Seems... really good?! Questions: - rendering capabilities of this seem like it should also be able to handle 2d well, or am I mistaken? every solution I see for getting high quality 2d images or rasterization in terminal is all pretty bad. Could this do better than other solutions or is there a fundamental limit being hit somewhere? - What happens with ssh given that this is gpu accelerated?

The kitty graphics protocol is pretty good. Ghostty implements it fully.

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by d-us-vb » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #58

Onavo wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was a work of art. Also Oberon.

>work of art more like theopneustos

Even Terry Davis wasn't that bold.

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by rs545837 » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

Damn this was really fun to use.

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by drakythe » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

d-us-vb wrote: post #103

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>work of art more like theopneustos

Even Terry Davis wasn't that bold.

Given that Terry described the manic episodes as "a revelation from God" I think theopneustos is an accurate description. It just means "God Breathed" or "Inspired by God"

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by drakythe » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

My first reaction: "But why?"

My second reaction: "Oh wait is that TempleOS being cited? This is either awesome or terrible."

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by chakintosh » Mon, May 11, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

People complain about token limits

Then spend their tokens on abominations like this

Make it make sense

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by kspacewalk2 » Mon, May 11, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

chakintosh wrote: post #107

People complain about token limits Then spend their tokens on abominations like this Make it make sense

I mean... Why not?

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by arusahni » Mon, May 11, 2026, 3:01 PM UTC

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #10

Rip Terry. May you never be forgotten. edit: But your spirit lives on ( based on the project:D )

As do his sprites.

Re: Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics

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Post by em-bee » Mon, May 11, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #50

noelwelsh wrote: post #46

I like this. No reason the terminal should only support text. Data science notebooks show one way the terminal can evolve. Lots of interesting stuff happening in this space, with Kitty probably being the most aggressive innovator here [1]. I'm not sure there is an overall vision, though. [1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/protocol-extensions/

I wonder if something like this could work for thumbnails in the terminal; I prefer to browse my filesystem from a terminal rather than the point and click file manager typically, and it would be really useful if I could have a grid-style `ls` with terminal based renders of the 3d models (thinking STL/STEP, 3D printing) in that directory. Bonus points if I could preview/rotate the model to inspect it.

as a compromise i started using nemo/n̶a̶u̶t̶i̶l̶u̶s̶ with a plugin that puts a terminal at the bottom of each tab. so i have a graphical view of the terminal but a commandline in the same folder right next to it. the two don't interact other than being able drag and drop filenames from the filemanager into the terminal, so it is far from what we really want, but it's a small start.