Making a gif by rotating an image

[dargaud]

Hello all,
it's been a while since I last did any 'advanced' IM tricks, so I'm a little rusty. I'd like to take an image and make a gif (or any video format with settable speed and looping) with that image, then that same image rotated by 360*1/n, that same image rotated by 360*2/n, ... that same image rotated by 360*(n-1)/n, and then loop the gif. Where n is the number of divisions of the circle.

Any idea ? Thanks

[snibgo]

For example, 36 views at 10 degree intervals:

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convert rose: -duplicate 35 -distort SRT 1,%[fx:t*10] x.gif

[GeeMack]

I'd like to take an image and make a gif (or any video format with settable speed and looping) with that image, then that same image rotated by 360*1/n, that same image rotated by 360*2/n, ... that same image rotated by 360*(n-1)/n, and then loop the gif. Where n is the number of divisions of the circle.

Please remember to always provide your IM version and which OS or platform you're working on.

In concept, with any recent version of IM, this should make a 24 frame animated GIF, each frame rotated by 360/24 more than the previous frame.

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convert input.png -duplicate 23 -distort SRT %[fx:t*360/n] -set delay 10 -loop 0 output.gif

[anthony]

See IM Examples, GIF animations, for an explanation of this technique...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_mods/#distort

For older technique see
Simple Image Warping, Animations
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/warping/#animations

[dargaud]

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Although I couldn't get -delay to work in either .gif or .mng output until I saw GeeMack's syntax being "-set delay". In many places of the documentation it's given as -delay (even the man page) and it doesn't work. I'm using version 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2016-11-29

[fmw42]

Use -delay before reading the input images or use -set delay after reading the input images.

[anthony]

See... GIF Animations Basics....
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_basics/#gif_anim

Also see Basics, Setting/Changing Image Attributes/Properities
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#attributes