Does this or any of the mentioned alternatives work over ssh ?
That said, one of the issues on timg's issues list deals in the sheer amount of superfluous data that are generated and that that thus have to be transmitted across an SSH connection or a serial device. There is no optimization of the colour change control sequences at all. pixterm similarly does zero optimization, but no-one has pointed that out yet.
* https://github.com/hzeller/timg/issues/13
pxl, mentioned elsewhere on this page, does optimize colour control sequences and indeed uses an ncurses-style double-buffer mechanism to optimize re-drawing.