Problem

The iTerm terminal on OSX supports image display directly in the terminal, using special escape codes. This means that one can run ipython and draw matplotlib plots directly in terminal, without opening a separate window. Please support a backend which enables this officially.

Proposed solution

Add a backend that supports iTerm image display.

Additional context and prior art

Here is a working prototype.
https://github.com/daleroberts/itermplot
Unfortunately, the author is not clear about the license, but according to PyPI, it is MIT
https://pypi.org/project/itermplot

As you can see from the number of stars of this repo, there is a high demand for this backend.