today i got so upset about rust not being a shading language, i did the closest thing i could think of and tried generating animated gifs!
in the picture the one i generated is running on an led matrix, which looks a lot cooler than playing it on a regular screen but i'm allowed to cheat a lil!
the code for it is really cursed tho lmao
use gif::{Encoder, Frame, Repeat}; use std::borrow::Cow; use std::fs::File;fn main() {
let color_map = &[
0x00, 0x00, 0x00, //
0xF8, 0x90, 0x20, //
0x60, 0x28, 0x78, //
0x30, 0x00, 0x30, //
];let frame_count = 64; let (width, height) = (64, 32); let mut image = File::create("target/beacon.gif").unwrap(); let mut encoder = Encoder::new(&mut image, width, height, color_map).unwrap(); encoder.set_repeat(Repeat::Infinite).unwrap(); (0..frame_count).for_each(|current_frame: u16| { let mut pixels = vec![]; for y in 0..height { for x in 0..width { let height = (16.0 + (f32::sin((x + current_frame) as f32))) .round() .abs() as u16; if y == height { pixels.push(1); } else if (y == height + 6) || (y == height - 6) { pixels.push(2); } else if (y == height + 12) || (y == height - 12) { pixels.push(3); } else { pixels.push(0); } } } let mut frame = Frame::default(); frame.width = width; frame.height = height; frame.buffer = Cow::Borrowed(&pixels); encoder.write_frame(&frame).unwrap(); });
}