ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations on steroids for robot sensor data

This displays various sensor messages in a useful fashion using Unicode Braille art in the terminal so you don’t need to fire up port forwards, rviz, or any other shenanigans just to see if something is working. If your terminal supports only ASCII, you can use the option for a purely ASCII-art render:

You can also force 1-bit, 4-bit, or 24-bit color modes if your terminal type is not detected correctly. Here’s what the NavSatFix message looks like on pure ASCII:

For most std_msgs numeric types you will get a time series plot.

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