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The ending position to pan to on the x axis

The starting position to pan from on the y axis The starting position to pan from on the x axis The number of frames (plus 1) to generate Firstly, I defined a bunch of variables: #!/usr/bin/env bash I wrote a quick shell script for this purpose. The first task is to generate the frames from the original image. It isn't available on the original source website anymore (and I've lost the link), but can still be found on various wallpaper websites.)

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(Credit: The background on the download page for Mozilla's Firefox Nightly builds. For my test, I took an image and created a 'panning' animation from one side of it to the other. Traditional animated GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format for the curious) are limited to 256 colours, have limited transparency support (a pixel is either transparent, or it isn't - there's no translucency support), and don't compress terribly well.Īnimated PNGs (Portable Network Graphics), on the other hand, let you enjoy all the features of a regular PNG (as many colours as you want, translucent pixels, etc.) while also supporting animation, and compressing better as well! Best of all, if a browser doesn't support the animated PNG standard, they will just see and render the first frame as a regular PNG and silently ignore the rest. I ended up re-discovering it a few weeks ago (also through !), and since browser support is so much better now I decided that I just had to play around with it. I stumbled across the concept of an animated PNG a number of years ago (on actually if I remember right!), but at the time browser support was very bad (read: non-existent :P) - so I moved on to other things. I recently discovered that Animated PNGs are now supported by most major browsers:

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