Glass UI

[yvt]

I wonder if there is interest in something like this?

[the-mikedavis]

That looks nice! I'm not sure it's possible to do until there's a GUI though because of terminal limitations, right?

[CptPotato]

I'm pretty sure this is in-terminal and uses various block characters (like these) with bg and fg colors to approximate the blurred gradient as closely as possible.

[yvt]

It's certainly possible! The pictures above are actual screenshots from https://github.com/yvt/helix/tree/⚗/blur.

[CptPotato]

Very cool!
Sadly I can't run the patched version since it doesn't build with MSVC (because of gmp-mpfr-sys required by the srgb crate).

[Omnikar]

I tried it out and it seems really awesome! Although, I got near abysmal performance if I didn't compile in release mode.