Image rendering in the terminal to aid with descriptive prose

Although I enjoy reading, having no mental imagery means that rich, descriptive passages are often lost on me. I will skip them and move on, not without feeling guilty about doing so. For this reason I’ve made attempts in the past to aid me, including displaying rendered images on the Kobo. This setup was a bit cumbersom, as I’d lose the changes on firmware updates or device resets. My latest tenuous attempt is to render the images in the terminal using the kitty terminal graphics protocol, which is supported by a number of modern terminal emulators, including WezTerm. On the left I am reading an ebook using epy reader. I copy passages from it and paste it into my running script which waits for input. The script then passes the text, along with a JSON workflow, to ComfyUI; ComfyUI then generates the image and returns it to the script, which then renders it using a kitty graphics protocol library, term-image. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach are the same. To benefit…