animate-im6.q16(1)

🎀 animate-im6.q16 🎀

Okay bestie, this lives in the General Commands Manual 📖 and it's giving very useful energy ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

animate — animates an image or image sequence on any X server 🎞️

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

animate-im6.q16 [options] input-file

🦋 OVERVIEW 🦋

okay so the animate-im6.q16 program is part of the ImageMagick-ims6.q16(1) suite of tools 🧚 Use it to animate an image or image sequence on any X server. literally that's the whole job, and it's iconic.

If you want the full tea on the animate command, check out file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/animate.html (on debian system you may install the imagemagick-6 package) or https://imagemagick.org/script/animate.php 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Here's the menu, sorted into categories so you don't get lost 🍓

💜 Image Settings 💜

• -alpha option — flip the alpha stuff with on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy transparent, extract, background, or shape 🫶
• -authenticate value — unlock the image with this password 🔐
• -backdrop — center the image on a backdrop, very main character 👑
• -channel type — apply an option to specific image channels 🎨
• -colormap type — pick Shared or Private 🌈
• -colorspace type — switch to an alternate image colorspace ✨
• -decipher filename — turn cipher pixels back into plain pixels 🕵️
• -define format:option — define one or more image format options (format it like this, bestie) 🧾
• -delay centiseconds — pause before showing the next image 💤
• -density geometry — the horizontal and vertical density of the image 📏
• -depth value — the image depth 🌊
• -display server — show the image on this X server 🖥️
• -dispose method — layer disposal method 🧹
• -dither method — apply error diffusion to the image 🎲
• -filter type — use this filter when resizing an image 🪄
• -format "string" — print out formatted image characteristics 🖨️
• -gamma value — the level of gamma correction 💡
• -geometry geometry — preferred size and location of the Image window 🪟
• -gravity type — horizontal and vertical backdrop placement 📍
• -identify — identify the format and characteristics of the image 🔍
• -immutable — the displayed image can't be modified, hands off 🙅‍♀️
• -interlace type — the type of image interlacing scheme 🧶
• -interpolate method — pixel color interpolation method 🌀
• -limit type value — pixel cache resource limit 🚧
• -loop iterations — loop the images, then exit 🔁
• -matte — store the matte channel if the image has one 🩰
• -map type — display the image using this Standard Colormap 🗺️
• -monitor — monitor progress 👀
• -pause — seconds to pause before reanimating ⏸️
• -page geometry — size and location of an image canvas (setting) 📄
• -quantize colorspace — reduce colors in this colorspace 🎨
• -quiet — suppress all warning messages 🤫
• -regard-warnings — pay attention to warning messages 🚨
• -remote command — run a command in a remote display process 📡
• -repage geometry — size and location of an image canvas (operator) 📐
• -respect-parentheses — settings stay in effect until the parenthesis boundary 🧷
• -sampling-factor geometry — horizontal and vertical sampling factor 🎚️
• -scenes range — the image scene range 🎬
• -seed value — seed a brand new sequence of pseudo-random numbers 🎰
• -set attribute value — set an image attribute 🏷️
• -size geometry — the width and height of the image 📐
• -support factor — resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp 🔪
• -transparent-color color — the transparent color 🫧
• -treedepth value — color tree depth 🌳
• -verbose — print detailed info about the image, tell me everything 📣
• -visual type — display the image using this visual type 👁️
• -virtual-pixel method — virtual pixel access method 🌫️
• -window id — display the image to the background of this window 🪟

🌈 Image Operators 🌈

• -colors value — your preferred number of colors in the image 🎨
• -crop geometry — preferred size and location of the cropped image ✂️
• -extract geometry — pull out an area from the image 🧲
• -monochrome — turn the image into black and white 🖤🤍
• -resample geometry — change the resolution of an image 🔬
• -resize geometry — resize the image 📏
• -rotate degrees — apply Paeth rotation to the image 🔄
• -strip — strip the image of all profiles and comments 🧼
• -thumbnail geometry — make a thumbnail of the image 🖼️
• -trim — trim the image edges ✂️

🧚 Image Sequence Operators 🧚

• -coalesce — merge a sequence of images together 🫶
• -flatten — flatten a sequence of images 🥞

🎀 Miscellaneous Options 🎀

• -debug events — display copious debugging info (it's a lot, bestie) 🐛
• -help — print the program options 🆘
• -log format — the format of the debugging info 📝
• -list type — print a list of supported option arguments 📋
• -version — print version info 🏷️

Also, you can pass these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -name, -mattecolor, -shared-memory, or -title 💅

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ok now the file format situation, and this one is actually so cute 🥹 By default, the image format of file' gets figured out from its magic number. If you want to force a specific format, put the format name and a colon in front of the filename (like ps:image) or use the image type as the filename suffix (like image.ps). And if you want to use standard input or output, set file' to - 🌸

🔘 Buttons 🔘

• 1 — press it to map or unmap the Command widget 🖱️

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

ImageMagick-im6.q16(1) 💜

⚖️ COPYRIGHT ⚖️

Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick-6-common/html/www/license.html (on debian system you may install the imagemagick-6 package) or https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php 🫶

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Till next time, bestie, this was made by ImageMagick 🌈 dated 2009/01/10 01:00:00, and it's the animate-im6.q16(1) page 💖✨🦋