GIFImages.jl provides support for decoding and encoding GIF images by wrapping LibGif. GIF(Graphics Interchange Format) supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette which are known as local colormap of up to 256 colors for each frame. GIF is palette based, is very widely used and is a loseless data compression format.

If you have not yet installed Julia, please follow the instructions for your operating system.

Stable Version

# Enter ']' from the REPL to enter Pkg mode.
pkg> add GIFImages.jl

Dev Version

using Pkg
# Enter ']' from the REPL to enter Pkg mode.
pkg> add https://github.com/ashwani-rathee/GIFImages.jl.git

For decoding purposes, GIFImages.jl currently supports gif_decode which decode the GIF image as colorant matrix. The source data needs to be a filename.

• filepath::AbstractString : Path to the gif file
• use_localpalette::Bool=false : While decoding, using this argument use of local colormap or global colormap for a particular slice can be specified. Gif files are palette based and have a global colormap(max 256 colors) but slices/images in gif can have their own local colormap specific to a particular slice/image. These colormap can be used to decode a image if use_localpalette as true.

julia> using GIFImages, Downloads

julia> path = "test/data/fire.gif"
"test/data/fire.gif"

julia> img = gif_decode(path)
60×30×33 Array{RGB{N0f8},3} with eltype RGB{N0f8}

For encoding, GIFImages.jl provides gif_encode which encode the GIF colorant matrix to file.

• filepath : Name of the file to which image is written.
• img : 3D GIF colorant matrix which has structure of height* width * numofimages and all the images are present as slices of the 3D matrix
• colormapnum : Specifies the number of colors to be used for the global colormap

julia> using GIFImages, Downloads

julia> path = "test/data/fire.gif"
"test/data/fire.gif"

julia> img = gif_decode(path)
60×30×33 Array{RGB{N0f8},3} with eltype RGB{N0f8}

julia> gif_encode("fire.gif", img)

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