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The hardest way to make a GIF
- dominicq 4mo ago"Acquire photons" was funny
- john_strinlai 4mo agoit certainly gives "you must first invent the universe" vibes
- MitPitt 4mo agoIf you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe
- virgil_disgr4ce 4mo agoThis reminds me in the best way of Lynch's Lumiere competition entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o
- ticulatedspline 4mo ago> Using imagemagick on the command line I was able to combine the images into a GIF. man what a cop out, I was hoping they would use a text editor to build the gif. that would be way harder.
- hereonout2 4mo agoIndeed, I've never developed my own film but I do respect it entails a fair bit of effort, and the funky old camera is cool. But scanning, cropping using one of the latest image editors, then running it through imagemagick does not feel like the hardest way to make a gif.
- adzm 4mo agoDeveloping film is such a beautiful kind of magic. Watching the image appear in a darkroom before your eyes is a very unique experience.
- helterskelter 4mo agoYeah I was expecting somebody to build a gif by hand from the spec using ed.
- unsnap_biceps 4mo agoRelevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- DerivativeBS 4mo agoYeah, real devs write their own LZW compression implementation from scratch in C++
- mxfh 4mo agoNo reference to Ulead GIF Animator? Was expecting some time travel step in between.
- James333i 4mo agoI was a little hoping you were going to hand deliver the film to a CVS and have it printed AND THEN scan it :) As for imagemagick, you could make this harder by: a) Parsing the PNG structure of every image (4-byte length, 4-byte type, data, and 4-byte CRC). b) Decompress and unfilter the pixel data c) Convert data to indexed color and quantize down to <= 256 colors if needed d) Write the GIF container e) LZW-encode the pixel indices