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Subject: Re: Blinking Daemon in 'Powered By' GIF
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:30:01 +0200
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> From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com>
> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org>; freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Blinking Daemon in 'Powered By' GIF
> Date: Friday, February 21, 1997 11:26 AM
> 
> At 10:48 PM 2/20/97 -0700, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> >On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, John Fieber wrote:
> >> On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I did a little cleanup on the 'Powered By' GIF and I animated it a
touch
> >> > so he blinks every so often.
> >> 
> >> Very nifty! it is a little large at 31K, compared to 5K for the
> >> original.  Any way you can squeeze that down a bit? 
> >
> >Short of reducing the frames involved (and making the blink choppier)
no..
> 
> 
> I spent the time to cut it down; it's 7k now, and a pallete of 64 colors.
> All but the first frame, are only of a small portion of the head,
reducing
> the bandwidth needed to transmit this image.  It's a *bit* choppier.
> Tanstaafl..
> 
> http://www.gigo.com/powered_by_freebsd_7k.gif

It blinks now with microsoft internet explorer 3.0 :(

> 
> Thanks to Brandon for the nice starting point :)
> 
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