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Let's say you want to make a Stranger Things style christmas light-up message, but strangergif seems to be talking a half hour to load, and you realize the cockeyed.com generator doesn't make a gif, but uses sprites.
NOT A PROBLEM.
Save and run this bash script:
!#/bin/bash
foo=6take6your6meds6
for (( i=0; i<${#foo}; i++ )); do
wget -O meds$i.jpg "http://www.cockeyed.com/stranger/alphabet${foo:$i:1}.jpg"
done
Replace foo= with your message, replacing spaces with the numeral 6. I recommended putting a 6 at the front and back of your message to cause a pause.
Run the bash script.
run
convert -resize 400 -delay 40 -loop 0 `ls -v meds*` takem.gif
(convert is an imagemagick tool, you'll need that installed.)
jigger with the size and delay to get a gif you like.
potential gotchas: the spacer jpg is actually a png. Imagemagick doesn't care, and will use it correctly, but other command line processes may be confused. the strange ls -v is to cause meds1 to come before meds10, which could have been avoided with left-padding, but I didn't bother figuring that out.
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NOT A PROBLEM.
Save and run this bash script:
!#/bin/bash
foo=6take6your6meds6
for (( i=0; i<${#foo}; i++ )); do
wget -O meds$i.jpg "http://www.cockeyed.com/stranger/alphabet${foo:$i:1}.jpg"
done
Replace foo= with your message, replacing spaces with the numeral 6. I recommended putting a 6 at the front and back of your message to cause a pause.
Run the bash script.
run
convert -resize 400 -delay 40 -loop 0 `ls -v meds*` takem.gif
(convert is an imagemagick tool, you'll need that installed.)
jigger with the size and delay to get a gif you like.
potential gotchas: the spacer jpg is actually a png. Imagemagick doesn't care, and will use it correctly, but other command line processes may be confused. the strange ls -v is to cause meds1 to come before meds10, which could have been avoided with left-padding, but I didn't bother figuring that out.
This post also on dreamwidth (
comments)