Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Animating a GIF made using GIMP

I just don't have words to describe my happiness at having made a gif animation. I am posting the gif file here. Would soon make gif files out of all the graphics projects that i have created as of now.




I made this gif using the tutorial here.

The following is a gif made out of a jpeg compression software. The quality of the compression is varied and you get different results. The compression software from the independent JPEG group that i used is freely downloadable from here.



While i have been dying to get hold of the source code of JPEG and MPEG codecs i have not made much headway into writing image processing code or understanding them. Much of the slow progress is due to my reluctance to use MATLAB and partly result of my predominant policy of C only. I looked at ffmpeg and have it in my system. Just didn't find time to go through it. Most of the code i know will be greek and latin. I have handled Data Compression for one semester and the results were disastrous. Nearly 25% failed. I gave up on the subject and the students are now playing safe with taking OR(operations research in the sixth semester).

Recently students came to me with a project proposal of using OpenCV. I was impressed. It is open source. Again just cannot work my ass off(WMAO) to learn them.