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Imaginary Trains

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice gif! I appreciate seeing those in my feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

lovely palette, and i love the upward sweeps of cloud

am i insane, or is this is really weirdly scaled though? most of it's bilinear, but the smoke and birds are nearest-neighbour?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sharp eyes! I didn't notice it, but I think you're right.

I would say there were 2 scalling steps for the background+train, one nearest-neighbour and a second bilinear one... or maybe it was saved with a very loosy JPG quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

yeah i think that's just crusty gif compression (i notice it's an actual gif not a gifv)

it does look nostalgic though with the crappy 256 colour dithering