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Much of what art is, is serendipity, accident and discovery. If you’re overly deliberate your not creating high art. Anyway I just find it funny that gifs were
by egfx 6y ago
Much of what art is, is serendipity, accident and discovery. If you’re overly deliberate your not creating high art.
Anyway I just find it funny that gifs were invented to solve the problem of over sized video and now he’s saying that videos are solving the problems of over sized gifs.
- Dylan16807 6y agoThe format was designed so you could do simple animation in a way that otherwise acts like an image format. For actual video style content, it never saved space. And codecs for video have massively improved over the years, while gif hasn't.
- willis936 6y agoInterestingly, a lot has changed in computers in the past 33 years. When gif was made there were no good lossy compression algorithms that had been developed, let alone implemented efficiently enough to run on computers of the day. This changed by the early 90s. >he’s saying that videos are solving the problems of over sized gifs And they have been for the past 25 years.