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Global
Connections 2000
GIF
GIF Animation |
- Global
Connections 2000
- A
business partnership between Pekin District
108, IBM, Sprint-Centel, and Continental Cablevision
(now MediaOne) which established a Wide Area
Network across Pekin. For more information,
visit the Global Connections 2000 web site.
GIF
Most of the graphics you run across on the
Web will be in the GIF format (these files are
just called "GIFs" for short), a file-type
that is readable by most graphics programs. You
can tell a file is a GIF by looking at its extension.
If its name is something like "filename.gif,"
then you guessed it, it's a GIF. The pronunciation
of this word is the subject of some debate. Purists
insist on pronouncing it "jiff" (don't
ask us why), while folks who don't know any better
are applying common sense and pronouncing it the
way it looks (i.e., like "gift" without
the "t"). GIF stands for Graphics Interchange
Format. Compare with JPEG
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GIF
animation
Most of the still pictures you will see on-line
are GIFs (see above). However, the latest version
of the GIF format (version 89a, if you must know)
allows you to create simple animation in addition
to stills. To make these animations, creaters
use two or more "frames" of animation.
Then a GIF animation package is used to string
the pictures together into a tiny filmstrip that
plays over and over when viewed on a web page.
GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format.
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