[HN Gopher] Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots
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       Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-05-04 07:14 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | toxik wrote:
       | Neat. But why reinvent a bad version of matplotlib when all you
       | need to make is an MPL backend? Is it very hard to make a
       | backend?
        
       | chaz6 wrote:
       | The problem with using braille characters is the spacing which
       | leaves to uneven distribution of "pixels". This could be improved
       | by using octants, which will be included in Unicode 16.
       | 
       | https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.p...
        
         | jmholla wrote:
         | I don't see a completely filled in octant. What character
         | should be used for that?
        
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