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While this article excells on the technical aspects of the GIF format, it misses out on the significance of the GIF art renaissance of ca 2011 to 2014, which wa
by mxfh 10y ago
While this article excells on the technical aspects of the GIF format, it misses out on the significance of the GIF art renaissance of ca 2011 to 2014, which was most likely initiated by tumblr's arbitrary file size limits.
Here is a primer on that:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-brief-history-of-animated-gif-art-part-three-88928 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-brief-history-of-animate...
- tomcam 10y agoI'll be danged. Good share. I had wondered why the resurgence.
- maxst 10y agoThe article is completely wrong about technical aspects of animated GIFs: > Unlike GIFs, video files don't actually contain every frame of animation you see > As a GIF, it takes up more than 60 MB because every single frame needs to be stored as a complete image. This is ridiculous. See http://www.drdobbs.com/optimizing-gif-animations/184412988 http://www.drdobbs.com/optimizing-gif-animations/184412988