preview

Preview

🎨 Simple cross platform image viewing for developers

Installing

You can fetch this library by running the following

go get -u github.com/joshdk/preview

Usage

import (
	"image/jpeg"
	"net/http"
	"github.com/joshdk/preview"
)

resp, err := http.Get("https://i.imgur.com/X9GB4Pu.jpg")
if err != nil {
	panic(err.Error())
}

img, err := jpeg.Decode(resp.Body)
if err != nil {
	panic(err.Error())
}

preview.Image(img)

If run on a Mac, this code will open up the Preview utility, displaying the downloaded image. On Linux, the display or xv utility is used.

Previewing of the following types are supported:

• color.Color (or a slice of []color.Color)
• image.Image
• glot.Plot from Glot
• plot.Plot from Gonum Plot
• Local filesystem paths

License

This library is distributed under the MIT License, see LICENSE.txt for more information.