Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:27:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Message-ID: <20001212022710.B16205@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <E145mRH-00060w-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:13:39AM %2B0000 References: <E145mRH-00060w-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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* Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> [001212 02:13] wrote: > > * Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> [001212 01:34] wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I am educating my son in the ways of non-MS software :) > > > Is there a port of anything available for making > > > animated GIFs ? I guess you can do it with the GIMP, but that is way too > > > complex for him (and for me!) > > > > When I read "It's that time of year. GIF files." I thought you > > were referrnig to "Burn all GIFs day". > > > > Unfortunetly the GIF encoding scheme is patetended by a company > > called Unisys, which didn't enforce the patent until it was in use > > everywhere. > > > > It's not thier fault, apparently they didn't know the compression > > scheme was thiers until everyone was using it, however they also > > didn't mention it when the designer had an article up about it > > that there was a patent pending. > > > > Tell your kid to "just say no to GIFs". I'm sure there's a better > > format out there, avi maybe? > > > Patents .. patents bah ! > They even want to patent my genes :( > > Ok, i told him to say no to heroin etc. > I will add GIF's to the list.. > What else is good for animations ? I'm not sure how old your kid is, but if you want to dazzle him you might want to try installing a programming langugage that makes it easy to make graphics, something like tcl/tk or some perl interface to graphics like perl-tk. Trust me, when I was 8 this was amazing stuff. :) I don't know how much of a programmer you are if at all, but tcl/perl is not that difficult to learn and you'll both have a good time. Just find an editor that's easy to use, I think vi and especially emacs could lead a small child to tears. Try 'edit' or look around in the ports tree for something easy to use. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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