Yeah, real devs write their own LZW compression implementation from scratch in C++

Developing film is such a beautiful kind of magic. Watching the image appear in a darkroom before your eyes is a very unique experience.

Indeed, I&#x27;ve never developed my own film but I do respect it entails a fair bit of effort, and the funky old camera is cool.<p>But scanning, cropping using one of the latest image editors, then running  it through imagemagick does not feel like the hardest way to make a gif.

Yeah I was expecting somebody to build a gif by hand from the spec using ed.

&gt; Using imagemagick on the command line I was able to combine the images into a GIF.<p>man what a cop out, I was hoping they would use a text editor to build the gif. that would be way harder.

it certainly gives &quot;you must first invent the universe&quot; vibes

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe

This reminds me in the best way of Lynch&#x27;s Lumiere competition entry: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o</a>