ericleong / giftext

Generates animated 3d text as a gif.

giftext

Renders an animated 3d text gif in node.js.

prepare

Requirements

• Cairo
• rgb2gif (or gif2rgb) found in giflib
• canvas
• gifsicle

The locations of rgb2gif and gifsicle can be set with a local config.json, in this format

{
	"rgb2gif": "<path-to-rgb2gif>",
	"gifsicle": "<path-to-gifsicle>"
}

Otherwise they are assumed to be in the default PATH.

Install node.js dependencies with

$ npm install

If necessary, the port can be set with the PORT environment variable, otherwise, it defaults to 8080.

Optional

memjs is used to interface with memcached for caching.

run

Local

Start the server with

$ node app.js

and visit localhost:8080 in your browser.

Heroku

inspiration

Based off of 3dtexter, a browser-based 3d text generator originally built at PennApps Fall 2013.