I live in the terminal. Most of my tools are CLIs. When I want to see something visual (an image, a plot, a table of results), I do not want to leave the terminal to see it.

Terminal graphics tools exist, but they are fragmented. One library does braille characters. Another does quadrant blocks. A third handles sixel. Each has its own API, its own conventions, its own way of thinking about the same problem.

dapple unifies them. One Canvas class, seven pluggable renderers, and eleven CLI tools built on top. The core depends only on numpy.