The hardest way to make a GIF
plaguna
42 points
11 comments
July 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
dominicq
"Acquire photons" was funny
virgil_disgr4ce
This reminds me in the best way of Lynch's Lumiere competition entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o
ticulatedspline
> 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.
mxfh
No reference to Ulead GIF Animator? Was expecting some time travel step in between.