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The above title is an animated GIF. You should have seen it type itself onto the screen, one letter at a time. It is a gif file, with twelve images in it. The first image has no letters, the second has one letter, the third has two letters, etc. I created the last image, with twelve letters, first, using Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. Then I created each of the other eleven images by erasing one letter at a time. Then I combined all twelve images into one gif, using the freeware version of Microsoft GIF Animator, which you can use for 15 days. I specified that each image was to run one half second, and I selected the option that makes the animation repeat forever.
This one is even simpler. I created a gif, with the lights of my Christmas tree. Then, I saved it as two images. In each, I blacked out some of the lights, until no light was still visible in both images. I used GIF Animator to combine these two images into one gif, selecting the repeat infinitely many times option. You can have an animation repeat any number of times. I then saw that the tree had too few lights. So I went back and added some lights.
I assume you can get GIF Animator from Microsoft's WWW pages. I got it from The GIF Animator's Guide, by Sandra E. Eddy.
I recently bought
Jasc's Animation Shop. Here is one of the above animations, with an added
special effect.
Addendum:
Here are a couple more animations, which you can see on some of my other pages. You will find them at The Rail Nurse in my Billiards pages and Eclipsing Binary Stars in my Science pages. I used Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop, for these
Click here to see an animated background.