This is a graphics engine built for TUI applications. If you were to try to use a terminal as graphical output, you may be tempted to use characters such as █ for a pixel. The problem is that that does not give you a whole lot of resolution. Instead, you can do everything in braille. A braille cell has 8 subpixels (arranged in a 4 row by 2 column grid) that we can individually turn on or off. This leads to resolution that is increased by a factor of √8 ≈ 2.83.

This library is built entirely in pure Python. The graphical output is rendered using curses.

To run the demos, simply clone the repo and run the script from the root directory of the repo.

git clone https://github.com/PaulVirally/Subpixel.git
cd Subpixel
python ./examples/3d.py