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ga...@ya... <ga...@ya...>:
>I don't know then if one frame in a animation could have more than
>one image block.

Can have up to two: one local; to the image, one global to the collection.
The giflib library itself only extracts colormaps and pixel valus for you;
it doesn't control how these are composited into a final RGB value.  That's
up to the application.

(Note to self: Add some recommendations about this to the docs.)

>Furthermore I don't understand how the GifColorType correlates with
the GifPixelType. Why this distinction?

GifPixelType is a wrapper for an unsigned pixel value interpreted as
an index into some color table. GifColorType is an RGB triple.
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So what you would suggest? First create images and than convert them to a gif file? 
As I understand you need at least one local color map per image block. I don't know then if one frame in a animation could have more than one image block. Furthermore I don't understand how the GifColorType correlates with the GifPixelType. Why this distinction? 
For instance I have a XColor type within the Xlib. And that type consists of pixel-value and rgb values. So I can easily access the pixel positions and the colors, thus doing manipulation on colors during animation without any need of color maps.



Am 17.08.2014 um 17:12 schrieb "Eric S. Raymond" <es...@th...>:

> Klin Iop <ga...@ya...>:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
>> (There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)
>> 
>> My steps would look something like this:
>> 
>> 1. Initialize and create global colormap
>> 2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
>> 3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
>>    - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
>>      to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.
>> 
>> So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Kind Regards
>> Alex
> 
> Probably not.  But how multiple images are interpreted is up to the display
> software; it isn't clearly specified in the standard.  In fact the standard
> seems to have been designed for "picture wall" rendering of multiple images
> on a solid background, not animation as multople images are now commonly used.
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Klin Iop <ga...@ya...>:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
> (There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)
> 
> My steps would look something like this:
> 
> 1. Initialize and create global colormap
> 2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
> 3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
>     - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
>       to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.
> 
> So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kind Regards
> Alex

Probably not.  But how multiple images are interpreted is up to the display
software; it isn't clearly specified in the standard.  In fact the standard
seems to have been designed for "picture wall" rendering of multiple images
on a solid background, not animation as multople images are now commonly used.
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Hello,

I would like to do some color manipulation on an animation during the animation itself. But I don't know how and where to set the colormap properly. May I accomplish this kind of manipulation with a local colormap?
(There is no input picture - i'm creating the picture and the colormap myself)

My steps would look something like this:

1. Initialize and create global colormap
2. Apply screen descriptor (using the global colormap) and extensions to gif file, 
3. Do animation and put frames into giffile in one loop
    - during the animation process I'm manipulating the colors, putting those into a (local?) colormap and applying this colormap
      to gif file with the image descripter for every frame.

So, do i have the right concept about colormaps for animations? Do I need a colormap for every frame in the animation?

Thanks,
Kind Regards
Alex