Animated Gif (Single Frame) – Eric Mika, 2011 It’s a single frame animated gif.
The file was hand written, per the GIF file specification. Although the original specification accommodates basic animation, this particular file uses an extension of the original format created and first supported by Netscape 2.0. Netscape’s addition remains out of the official spec — but seems to be the approach favored by most animated gifs around the web. While Animated Gif (Single Frame) may not follow CompuServe’s canonical format to the byte, it’s aligned instead with the vernacular of the real web. It renders, after all. The above image is simply solid black, and won’t appear to animate, but the file is structured in a way that identifies itself as a looping animation. Therefore, the parser rendering it in your browser is actually cycling between Frame 1 and Frame 1 every second, indefinitely.
It is intended as a “last work” for an exhausted medium.
Source code:
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