Did I mention this stuff was addictive?
Oct. 7th, 2005 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenI should stop, I know, but I just had to try out an idea I got from looking at someone's animated icon. So, I have here an abstract "cool hypnotic" icon. Or maybe it's a "drive you crazy" icon.
I still hurt, am cold, and have a headache. I don't feel like fixing bugs in txt2html right now. (sigh)
I still hurt, am cold, and have a headache. I don't feel like fixing bugs in txt2html right now. (sigh)
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Date: 2005-10-07 05:58 am (UTC)I hope the toe of doom is better soon.
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Date: 2005-10-07 06:05 am (UTC)Actually, no, I wasn't inspired by
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Date: 2005-10-07 11:39 am (UTC)ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo.... pretty....
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Date: 2005-10-07 12:03 pm (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2005-10-07 02:17 pm (UTC)What program did you use for that icon?
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Date: 2005-10-07 09:27 pm (UTC)I used The GIMP.
For the base, I used this tile which I had made with GIMP just using layers and differences (like I explain here). Then, to turn it into a hypnotic whirl, I just did the following repeatedly:
1) duplicate layer, rename it
2) do "whirl and pinch" 90 degrees
for about three layers, and then I duplicated layers and moved them so that it was a reverse stack to get the movement back to the base image, and then I did the same with -90 degrees, and then I saved it as a GIF animation. Which I then found was too large, so I reduced colours and size until it was under the 40K LJ limit.