In this chapter we learned that there is a utility named animate
that is used for displaying animations. This utility has a number of options that specify the display method. For creating animation, we need to use the convert
utility. There are several techniques and manners for constructing an animated file. But there are some options that are commonly used in all of them. The most common options for making and dealing with animated files are -delay, -dispose, -loop, -page, +repage, +adjoin, coalesce
, and -deconstruct
, which were discussed in detail in this chapter.
In the next chapter we will study the remaining ImageMagick utilities—conjure
, which is a command-line interpreter, and compare
, which annotates the differences between an image and its reconstructions.