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      <p>This is really easy in Python, with imageio library installed.
        You can write a really simple script, as below. <br>
      </p>
      <p>Using GIMP is fine but not easy to customise or repeat, because
        of the need to go through dialog boxes etc. If you learn to do
        this efficiently in code (Python, Matlab, Mathematica...) then
        you can do much more "reproducible" work.  The script below is
        the simple version but there are many ways to adapt it for, say
        creating a dialog box to choose the input files etc.<br>
      </p>
      <p>If you install a recent version of PsychoPy you'll have a
        simple editor to paste in this script, as well as the imageio
        lib (i.e. everything you need in order to run the code below.</p>
      <p>Jon<br>
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      <p>#-----------------------------</p>
      <p>import imageio<br>
        import glob<br>
        <br>
        filenames = glob.glob("frames/*.png")  # creates a list of file
        names searching this folder<br>
        filenames.sort()  # if you want them in alphabetical order then
        best to do this<br>
        outputName = "myAnimation.gif"<br>
        secsPerFrame = 1/25.0  # you can provide a list instead, for 1
        val per frame<br>
        reps = 1  # 1 rep (0 for infinite loop, or some other number for
        fixed N reps)<br>
        <br>
        outputImages = []<br>
        for thisFilename in filenames:<br>
            print(thisFilename)<br>
            frame = imageio.imread(thisFilename)<br>
            outputImages.append(frame)<br>
        <br>
        imageio.mimsave(outputName, outputImages, loop=reps,
        duration=secsPerFrame)<br>
        #-----------------------------</p>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/02/2018 01:01, Andrew Watson
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        Mathematica (and I believe Matlab) can stitch together a
        sequence of frames to make an animated GIF.
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              <div class="">On Feb 6, 2018, at 10:54 AM, Horowitz, Todd
                (NIH/NCI) [E] <<a href="mailto:todd.horowitz@nih.gov"
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                      style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Dear colleagues</span></div>
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                      style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">What software do
                      you use for creating gif files? We want to make
                      gifs from radiological images, and our
                      collaborators are understandably not comfortable
                      with uploading the images to online gif-creator
                      sites. Is there good desktop software for this
                      purpose?</span></div>
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