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Recreating the Past - John Maeda's 10 Morisawa Posters

Morisawa 8, Animated (see original)

With upfront apologies for any spaghetti code! (especially the animation code, jeez)

Requirements

• Ghostscript
• ImageMagick (for animation)
• Python 3 (for animation)

Environment for development

1. brew install entr
2. Install Skim
3. Check "Check for file changes" in Skim -> Sync Preferences
4. defaults write -app Skim SKAutoReloadFileUpdate -boolean true so it doesn't bother you all the time
5. ls *.ps | entr ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a3 -dOptimize=true /_ output.pdf
6. Keep Skim open on output.pdf for preview, and you can live edit any PS file in the working dir.

Export

1. ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a3 -dOptimize=true morisawa_8.ps output.pdf
2. convert -density 300 -background white -alpha remove -resize 1413x2000 -quality 80 output.pdf FILENAME.jpg

Animation

Generate

1. python generate_morisawa.py
2. mkdir out_img
3. gs -r300 -dDownScaleFactor=6 -sDEVICE=pnggray -sOutputFile=out_img/out-%d.png -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a3 out_ps/*.ps
4. Sometimes Ghostscript outputs bad frames, so go into ./out_img and delete them. (brownie points if you figure out why!)
5. convert out_img/*.png -reverse out_img/*.png -set delay 5 -loop 0 -filter LanczosRadius -distort Resize 60% animation.gif

Edit

1. Edit the morisawa_fun.ps.tpl file, putting in !!REPLACEMENT!! strings where appropriate.
2. Edit generate_morisawa.py to replace the above strings as desired.
3. Probably clear the ./out_ps directory