Side by side images

[wabiloo]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a reliable way to display 3 images side by side (horizontal grid) - they are all of the same size / aspect-ratio.
When the pixel mode is SYMBOLS (which seems to be the default that's decided by detect_capabilities() on my mac, both in VS Code (integrated terminal) and iTerm2 (not quite sure why it doesn't detect support for iTerm2 protocol), that's easy enough as I can extract the lines from the canvas, concatenate them, and print them line by line.

However when I force ITERM2 pixel format, that obviously cannot work.
I resulted to write some really clunky code that uses ANSI codes to move the cursor back up after printing each image, which kinda works.

However, I'd like to find a way to automatically determine:

• What pixel mode was used
• On that basis, determine what mechanism to use to place the images side by side
• And in particular, determine how many up-cursor characters to print to get to the top of the previous image.

Any suggestion?