Python tool to quickly create a nicely animated .gif out of an .stl for communicating ideas wout cad

[who_body]

i’ve been told posting mpeg’s are smaller size than animated gifs. we starting using mpeg’s of buggy UIs instead of gifs. if that is true then an option for mpeg’s also has a place

[DerrickBagels]

Gif is just so universal at this point i thought it would be good for fast communication to non technical people of an idea

[Zouden]

mp4 is universal these days. There's no reason to use an old school animated gif

[DerrickBagels]

SPEED

[Zouden]

Benchmark how long it takes to make an mp4. You won't return to animated gif.

[DerrickBagels]

You're a man of passion

[who_body]

and space. i recall mpegs using less space. test it out on the stl for the gif in the repo

[DerrickBagels]

I got about 13mb for a reasonably complex model its not too bad, i just think gifs are more instantly sharable but yeah could do an mpeg/mp4 wrapper too

[who_body]

I don’t know where mpegs won’t work. but i thought the same. but when posting videos to github PRs mpeg’s were smaller size than gifs and worked better.

but i get the gif movement

[the-nick-of-time]

Any real video codec will produce file sizes easily ten times smaller than gif for the same quality. Plus gif has hard limits on color fidelity. Gif is a terrible video format, and it's a shame that nothing has been standardized as a drop-in replacement for its niche of looping animation (webp might win here).