[triknomeister]

This is very interesting that you did the visualization using a GIF. I have only generated mp4 videos for vidoes till now using ffmpeg and png images or through something equivalent. Was there any advantage of GIF that you found? Like may be it was easier to do on the fly or was just simple enough?

[Const-me]

I believe the reason why management specifically asked for animated GIFs was compatibility. The GIF format is ancient and supported by everything, makes it trivial to share or embed these animation files.

Ignoring the compatibility, modern video codecs like h264 or h265 are substantially better than animated GIFs, in terms of both size and quality.

BTW I supported them as well. The only target platform of that software is modern versions of Windows. It only took couple pages of straightforward C++ because the OS includes a functional equivalent of libavcodec and libavformat libraries. Moreover, GPU drivers install and register the components to leverage the codecs implemented by hardware of these GPUs. The high-level API to encode compressed video files from a sequence of frames is MFCreateSinkWriterFromURL function.

[triknomeister]

Very cool Thanks!