New Computer Art Genre
Here is a new computer art genre of computer graphic objects which I call gifallions. Here is a definition.
gifallion.
A computer graphic object consisting of an animated gif file to give the impression of a large artistic medallion, containing at least a circular obverse and a circular reverse; other items, such as scrolls, are sometimes included: often, but not always, set out within a 201 pixel by 201 pixel area and often, but not always, containing a blue surround.
I am hoping that gifallions will become collectables and that some people will enjoy making their own.
The gifallion at the top of this page is an attempt to combine interests in graphic art and creative writing. The blue is the blue of the Microsoft Paint package. I drew the virtual glass globe using Microsoft Paint. The scroll is adapted from a piece of Microsoft Office clip art. When collected in a collecting case with the same blue background the four blue parts of the gifallion merge in with the background of the collecting case. Two main images are included, an obverse and a reverse, with animation allowed upon either or both sides as desired.
This is made conveniently possible by use of the Ulead GIF Animator Lite Edition that is kindly being given away on the web by Ulead Systems, Inc. whose web address is
http://www.ulead.com/ and I am grateful to them for their generosity in providing this software free on the world wide web.This is a marvellous piece of software which has been of great value in learning about animated gif files and in preparing some of my own.
I have designed a collecting case for these gifallion items and include it here. It consists of three files, case0001.htm, case9000.gif and position.gif which are an HTML file, a blue background and a position keeper for each of the fifteen gifallion storage positions in the collecting case.
Here are links.
I also include an example of the collecting case in use with the gifallion shown at the top of this page so that the effect when the backgrounds blend together can be seen.
William Overington
6 March 1998
