Who needs mp4 and the mystery meat data within? Kornel Lesiński's lossygif compresses GIF images, including animations, at the cost of noise. Though GIF does not offer true lossy compression, superimposing long horizontal lines of identical pixels gets the job done before encoding. Photoshop already does this, but this is better at it and it's free.
See also Gifski, the author's high-definition GIF movie encoder. It does the exact opposite thing, manipulating the GIF format into showing thousands of colors per frame at the cost of massive file sizes.
Last night I saw HBO’s The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company/cult, Theranos. It’s very good and surprisingly unsettling. UPDATE: I’ve looped her intensely unpleasant stare for 10 minutes and set it against a nice slow performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Enjoy the […]
Forget bottle flipping. Frozen pants flipping is the new hotness (coolness?). (via r/gifs)
Applied mathematics/computer science student Etienne Jacob makes mesmerizing black-and-white animated GIFs using Processing, “a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts.” You can see much more of Jacob’s stunning work on his Necessary Disorder site and read Jacob’s tutorials here on his blog. Far […]
If you’re going to pursue a career in graphic design, videography or web development, there are some essential tools you need to have – and all of them are included in the Adobe Creative Cloud. And whether you need to brush up on Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign – or are a beginner to them all […]
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If you’re into tech at all, you should definitely consider unleashing your inner tinkerer on a Raspberry Pi board. If you’re intimidated, don’t be. It’s a statistical probability that people half your age have created cooler things than you can imagine with the versatile kit. Not sure where to start? The Complete Raspberry Pi 3B+ […]
