Stupidcomputer

Move over, WebP; step aside, PNG; look out, VP9: a new and improved format for image sharing is coming soon: GIF 2.0 (GIF 26a, really, as that will be the new version in the header). A consortium of geeks and old format heads seems to…

A feature I thought would be cool for my GIF editor at some point was the possibility to directly draw on the images. Changing the contents of an image within a GIF is one of those things that normally is a bit of a hassle…

A milestone in my GIF editor, and something I first had left as a problem for future me, was the compression and decompression of images. Because of the way that GIFs work, a lot of information is easily manipulable; changing colors or reordering images in…

After the first entry was a bit of a downer, let us have some cool GIF-related fun this time. And by fun I mean a discussion on how we can achieve a thing and the inevitable realization why it won't work. As you might know,…

After letting my little GIF editor rest for a while, I thought that maybe some writing about GIFs and why they are cool is in order, intermixed with maybe some retrospective posts about the editor itself. So this is hopefully the first of many GIF-related…