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GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
Stephen Earl Wilhite [2] (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative ...
Juha van Ingen, AS Long As Possible, first frame playing documented in KIASMA Helsinki 2017. AS Long As Possible (ASLAP) (2015–2017) is a 1,000-year long animated GIF made by Finnish artist Juha van Ingen. [1] It premiered at Kiasma National Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki on 28 March 2017.
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
The imaginative French/Czech science fiction production La Planète sauvage (1973) was awarded the Grand Prix special jury prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, [55] and in 2016, it was ranked the 36th-greatest animated movie ever by Rolling Stone. [56] The British production Watership Down (film) (1978) was a huge international success. It ...
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Malaysian automaker Proton’s launch event for its first-ever EV on Dec. 16, 2024, at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre in Kuala Lumpur.
Since her "shortest first date ever" went viral, Smith says she's deleted the dating apps. She's still looking for love but wants to focus on meeting people in-person, so that her sense of humor ...
1927 – First appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in Trolley Troubles. He appears in Poor Papa, which is made earlier in 1927, but it is rejected by Universal Pictures and not released until 1928. 1928 – Mickey Mouse, and Minnie Mouse make their debuts in Steamboat Willie, the first ever synchronized cartoon with sound.