Tutorial Tools

This page mostly contains notes on how I create the tutorial content.

To export a Processing sketch as a gif, first add saveFrame() at the end of the draw() function. Make sure the frame rate is set to something a gif can handle, like 30.

Then open a command prompt at that directory, and type the following:

magick convert -delay 1x30 *.tif animation.gif

(Depending on your setup you can drop the magick part.)

To create a delay at the first frame:

convert -delay 5x1 000.png -loop 1 -delay 1x2 *.png output.gif

See also: this answer by George Profenza on Stack Overflow.