gwax's rumblings

My pre­vi­ous arti­cle on Unsticking Stuck LCD Pixels hav­ing been rather a hit and hav­ing been asked for an alter­nate gif image, I fig­ured I should revisit the topic briefly.

The ani­mated gif images were cre­ated with ImageMagick. Having long since for­got­ten how I did it last time, I reac­quainted myself with ImageMagick and have devel­oped this lit­tle one liner:

convert -delay 20 -loop 0 -size 100x100 xc:#FF0000 xc:#00FF00 xc:#0000FF rgbanim.gif

This com­mand will gen­er­ate an ani­mated gif to use in attempt­ing to fix stuck pix­els. Key para­me­ters are:

Image size can be changed by chang­ing the size para­me­ter.
ex.: -size 640x480

Cycling speed can be var­ied by chang­ing the delay para­me­ter.
ex.: -delay 7

So, if my orig­i­nal images don’t serve your pur­poses, go grab a copy of ImageMagick and make one of your own. (If I feel ambi­tious, I might hack together a script to auto-generate these gif images)

UPDATE: Apparently, I was suf­fi­ciently ambi­tious.

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