https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/gif/ Recent content in Gif on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/12/11/pixeltrix-animate/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2022/12/11/pixeltrix-animate/ tl;dr I’ve updated the {pixeltrix} package so you can create animated sprite gifs with a simple, interactive pixel editor from within R’s plot window. Pix all the right boxes The {pixeltrix} package—which I’ve written about before—lets you open an interactive R plot that you can click to turn ‘pixels’ on and off. I created it for one purpose: to quickly create simple, blocky sprites for my {tamRgo} package, which lets you keep a persistent cyberpet on your computer (yes, really). https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/26/engifification-in-r-with-gifski/ Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2018/07/26/engifification-in-r-with-gifski/ A sloth. On a pizza slice. In space. (via Giphy) gifski() You and I both know that the world needs more intergalatic-sloth-pizza gifs. Great news: ‘the fastest gif encoder in the universe’ has been created. The {gifski} package for R is now on CRAN. It’s a simple yet fast and powerful way to create gifs from within R, built by Jeroen Ooms) for rOpenSci. The obvious application is for creating gifs from plots, as in the following example from the ROpenSci announcement, which shows life expectancy by GDP per capita with a different year for each frame of the gif.