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Terminal Renderer - Rendering to Text with Compute

October 2, 2025

This week I brought my terminal renderer to the next level by performing text rendering on the GPU.

The Stanford Dragon, outlined and rendered as Braille characters in a terminal emulator.

Preamble: Unicode Braille and Ordered Dithering

I first messed around with rendering images to the terminal with Braille characters in like 2022 I think? I wrote a simple CLI tool that applied a threshold to an input image and output it as Braille characters in the terminal.

Generating and Parsing Logs