animated backgrounds

Máirín Duffy duffy at redhat.com
Tue Aug 28 20:24:32 UTC 2007


Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> A while ago Søren Sandmann did some work to support animated
>> backgrounds. The use case this feature was designed for is to
>> show pictures of the same scene (e.g. a city skyline) over the
>> course of the day (say, every 15 minutes), synchronized to the current 
>> time.
>> Unfortunately, we didn't ever get around to take such a photo series. 
>> But it would be a shame to let this nice feature go unused and 
>> eventually bitrot away, so I ported it to the new appearance capplet 
>> last night, and I am sending out this email in the hope that maybe 
>> some artists will find this interesting enough to come up with some 
>> cool animated backgrounds. 
> 
> So I did a series of the infinity backgrounds, 24, 1 for each in the day 
> to match the approximate sky coloring of that time of day.
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/
> 
> All 24 PNGs:

http://people.redhat.com/duffy/artwork/infinity-24/00-infinity24.tar.gz

Sorry hit send before I was ready :)

~m




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