xmake_anim.pl(1)

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💖 xmake_anim.pl — bestie's guide to the xmake_anim.pl(1) manual page 💖

okay so picture this: you've been cooking with XMakemol and now you've got a whole pile of XPM files just sitting there, being static and boring and not moving at all. tragic. enter xmake_anim.pl — the little script that turns all that into one iconic GIF animation. no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

xmake_anim.pl — a script to make GIF animations from XMakemol output. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it beautifully 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xmake_anim.pl [options] prefix

yeah bestie, you pass it some options (or don't, it's chill) and then the prefix. slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: xmake_anim.pl is used to make a GIF animation from a series of XPM files produced by XMakemol. 📸

and the way it finds those XPM files? they should all share the common prefix prefix. that's the whole vibe. you name the stem, it grabs the whole little family of images, and it stitches them into one moving masterpiece. literally main character energy. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -c — this option leads to the temporary (single image) GIF files being cleaned up after the animation has been created from them. basically: it does its lil craft project and then tidies up after itself 🧹✨ obsessed.
  • -d — this option allows the delay (in 1/100th seconds) between animated frames to be set. by default, there is no delay. so like, if you want your animation to breathe and not just sprint past you, this is your girl. otherwise it's zooming at full speed with zero chill 😭
  • -l — this option can be used to set the number of times the animation loops for. by default, the animation loops indefinitely. forever. eternal. iconic, honestly — it will never stop serving 👑
  • -o — this option can be used to set the name of the file that the animation is saved to. because naming your baby is important 🍼💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • xmakemol(1) — the origin story, the mothership, the reason any of this exists 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Matthew P. Hodges <matt@tc.bham.ac.uk> — absolute legend, gave us the gift of moving molecules. thank you for your service 🫡💐

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil manual came from the XMakemol fam, dated May 2002 (yes she's vintage, and vintage is always in) — go forth and animate, you've got this 💖✨🦋🌈

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