It all started on my space in December 2005. I needed a profile picture, and wanted to use my own art work, something I had created with an old DOS program called Fractint...
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Then I saw that people had animations as profile images, and I was green with envy, and half baked as well. I wondered, could I use the color cycling of Fractint to make an animation of my own for my profile?
It took a while to figure out. Making the animation frames was step one...
Eventually I found a utility that could turn a series of images into an animated GIF file, and voila:
A couple months later, I desired to emulate camera movement, and began experimentation...