Comments on: Mind-blowing animated GIF

By: Vincent Maldia

Vincent Maldia — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:51:00 +0000

could you replicate that without FX by blowing up some gunpowder on a steel plate?

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 03:37:00 +0000

lol she dances like Elaine Benes

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:57:00 +0000

Snap.

By: garyg2

garyg2 — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Me too…

…though strangely it does seem to… breathe if you stare at it long enough……….

By: LogrusZed

LogrusZed — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:55:00 +0000

I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I stared at the static .gif image on the mainpage trying to have my mind blown before clicking in to the article.

By: David Deutsch

David Deutsch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Dat Stereo.

By: David Deutsch

David Deutsch — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:08:00 +0000

Not using dithering in higher resolution gifs is usually a great way to *ahem* explode the filesize. The image above is 1MB, which probably means that the undithered was a fair bit larger.

I tested this to see whether I was right – converted it to RGB, blew up (again, apologies) the image to 300% with bilinear filtering, shrunk it down to its original size and saved it with undithered color indexing. Resulting filesize was 3MB. I would guess the actual original would have been around 4 to 5MB. Not horrible, but probably larger than a video of the same resolution. In any case – kind of ruining the snappy load time that makes gifs fun.

By: Alex Schneider

Alex Schneider — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Would have been more mind-blowing if they’d had her saying “vagina”.

By: Daniel Neumann

Daniel Neumann — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:43:00 +0000

Source: http://vimeo.com/41951380

By: Lee Brown

Lee Brown — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:41:00 +0000

I love the look of constipation on her face after the blast. Makes the whole GIF for me.

By: noah django

noah django — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:36:00 +0000

fuckin’ saved.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:08:00 +0000

All it needs is Condi Rice’s voice intoning, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”

By: SamSam

SamSam — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:17:00 +0000

It has been doing so for a long time.

By: lavardera

lavardera — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Reminds me of the space mermaid that stalked Dr. Smith on Lost in Space. “Handsome pretty handsome Dr. Smith…”

By: xzzy

xzzy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:50:00 +0000

I just wanna know why a greyscale image has dithering.

Well, okay, it’s more like “vanillascale” but 256 shades of vanilla ought to be enough to get by without dithering.

By: BarelyFitz

BarelyFitz — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:36:00 +0000

Little Baby’s Ice Cream… makes your head explode.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:34:00 +0000

This particular fascinator is why the security was so tight at the Kate n William nuptials.

By: Dale Glass

Dale Glass — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:32:00 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/UmpOi.gif

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:28:00 +0000

My first thought! She does have a certain Xeni Jardin-ness (with an atom splitting headache) to her!

By: Anne Noise

Anne Noise — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:16:00 +0000

I look forward to seeing this nine hundred times a day on Reddit.

By: mobobo

mobobo — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:10:00 +0000

that sir is rather dem hexcellent

By: Rev. Benjamin

Rev. Benjamin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:07:00 +0000

The trend of animated gifs appearing on boingboing pleases me.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:02:00 +0000

My father always told me I had a hard head.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Is this what Xeni is talking about with her ‘chemo-brain’?

By: MollyMaguire

MollyMaguire — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Is that Xeni?