Did I mention this stuff was addictive?

[kerravonsen]

I 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)

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool icon! Were you inspired by kernezelda's ones?

I hope the toe of doom is better soon.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!

Actually, no, I wasn't inspired by kernezelda's ones, but by another icon I saw somewhere I can't recall, which had a black background with a swirly brownish jewel-like circle in the middle of it.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oooh, could still and stare at it for far too long...

[kerravonsen]

8-) Thanks.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

*is hypnotized*

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo.... pretty....

[kerravonsen]

LOL!
Thanks.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. It's not helping my already-not-focusing eyes any, but that's cool!

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

P.S. feel better!

[kerravonsen]

I do. The Toe has stopped aching.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

What program did you use for that icon?

[kerravonsen]

Thanks!

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.