== Animated Nick ==

===Specification===

  * Each frame is a .lcd file.
  * All frames are concatenated and saved as "nick.lcd".
  * Each frame is shown with a fixed frame rate of 0.5s.

===Notes on lcd files===

  * Pixels are not quadratic, but rectangular with a 1.209 ratio (each pixel is 1.209 times higher than its width).
  * This means a square should be 77 pixel wide and 64 pixel high (for example).

===Automatic conversion from animated gif===

The "convert" program from imagemagick is the tool to use.

''convert INPUTFILE.gif -background white +adjoin -resize 96x82 -monochrome -alpha Off -resize '96x68!' -depth 1 -negate out.gif''

(This is 96 x 82 and 96 x 68, not that weird multiplication character the wiki makes of it.)

For some reason these must then be flattened (does not work on one line) before converting to LCD format:

''for f in out-*.gif; do convert $f -depth 1 -flatten f$f; ../r0ket/tools/image/img2lcd.pl f$f; done''

Now we can collect them:

''cat `ls fout-*.lcd |sort -n -t- -k2 ` > nick.lcd''

Copy nick.lcd to your r0ket badge.  Have fun!

===Sources for animations===

  * Stick man animations: http://www.graphicsgrotto.com/animatedgifs/stickfigures/
  * 4chan: http://boards.4chan.org/gif/
  * Geocities-Charme and other embarrassing shit: http://www.google.com/search?q=animated+gif


=== Publish your animation ===
You can publish your animation or image [[lcd_art|here]]