That's not necessarily true. GIF animations are limited to 256 colors, but
there are some excellent programs that dither the images so well you can
hardly tell that they're only 256 color. GIF Movie Gear, for instance. I use
it for all my GIF animations: www.gamani.com will get you a 30-day
fully-functional demo of it. You just have to set a few things in
Preferences and it looks almost like 24-bit color.
"Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> wrote in message
news:MPG### [at] NEWSPOVRAYORG...
> In article <3b182220@news.povray.org>, david sharp says...
> > I think this is the first time I ever posted any animation,
> > and I don't know if GIF is frowned upon for some
> > reason (I mean since I see few here).
> > .
> > Its a 'complex surface' rotating through 4-d space.
> > The function is f(z)= z^1/3. So the four dimensions
> > come from mapping u,v (one complex number) to x,y
> > (another complex number). That is, (u,v) -> (x,y)=(u+iv)^1/3 .
> > Made with the MegaPov "parametric{}" object.
> >
> It is cute: but difficult to visualize what happens. And also a fairly
> short animation, in fact.
> GIF as an animation format has the inherent lack of colour depth of the
> GIF images: IIRC 256 or less.
> Why not try MPG?
> --
> Regards,  Sander

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