NOTE: See comments below about the use of the Desktop Site browser setting for mobile viewing!
WARNING! Anybody suffering from Photosensitive Epilepsy should not view the animated images on this website. Aside from this issue, some people have a sensitivity to flashing, or flickering light, which can cause Flicker Vertigo. The frequencies causing this condition are understood to be in the range 4 to 20 Hz. We hope that animated graphics displayed on this website should not present any flicker vertigo problems, but we would appreciate being informed, should anybody experience any problems of this sort.
This website is experimental and it is planned to develop it further and add more images that we create, or that we find appealing from other authors. It is primarily for viewing with desktop computers using the latest versions of browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera; although the spacings and displays may vary on the browsers. We have noticed that on some browsers, particularly Firefox, some animated images may not load, if you are using Ad-blocker extensions, or programmes such as Adguard. There are no advertisements on this site and, if this occurs, you may disable the blocker temporarily. Many pages may not display properly on mobile phones, but should be viewable on laptops and larger tablets.
Computers can be used to display static and moving images. Here we are concerned with animated graphics created on a computer. Images can be created using various combinations of computer languages e.g. HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language), JS (JavaScript) scripting language and CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) language. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an extensible markup language based on XML (Extensible Mark-up Language). SVG images can be animated using using JavaScript or SMIL (Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language). There are various software programmes that can be used to create animated graphics with the various languages. The Adobe Flash® platform used Flash® scripting language and enjoyed great popularity to create animated images and games. It is now deprecated for security reasons and the Adobe Flash® Player reached end-of-life on 31 December, 2020 and ceased to be supported on browsers in 2020, so for that reason no examples will be included, although there are methods available to contiue to display them. We have a particular interest in clock graphics, including those created with Flash®, which can be found on our Chronographia website. However, we have included one extraordinary clock image created with SVG on this site.
While the various formats such as HTML documents, or SVG files used to produce animated images can be incorporated in a web page, they can be converted into the GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), which as a single file is generally easier to display. Although the GIF format was not designed as an animation medium, it can store multiple images in one file, thus providing a format to store the frames of an animation sequence. The majority of images displayed on his website are GIFs although there are other formats available and under development.
Many pages display GIF images, which are geometric and are almost mesmerising, but there are also some showing human, or animal forms. We have matched the page background colour to the background colour of the images when it is black, or white. However, with images having mixed, or other background colours, this is not possible without creating many more pages. The naming of most of the images follows the original name, but we have changed some to match with how we see them. Some geometric images are difficult to describe. Clicking on the various GIF images will open a Fancy Box with an enlarged display on a desktop monitor. Most of the GIF images can be displayed on mobile phone devices. For those which do not open or display properly, you may try the ‘Desktop site’ setting on the mobile browser.
The images are in no particular order, but it is suggested to start viewing them choosing from the menu from left to right. The Miscellany category contains a selection of images compiled using a mixture of HTML, CSS, JS and SVG coding that are best viewed full screen. For these images, it may be necessary to scroll the page to find the best position to view the image. Clicking F11 on a Windows keyboard will provide full screen on a computer monitor and Mac users have various methods to use full screen. Enjoy!
