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A simple example showing how to save animated gifs from p5.js sketches, using https://github.com/jnordberg/gif.js
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index.html
<html>
<head>
<script src="gif.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.3.11/p5.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/p5.js/0.3.11/addons/p5.dom.js"></script>
<script src="sketch.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p>First, allow camera access.<p><p>Then click once to start recording, and another time finish recording and make a gif.</p>
</body>
</html>
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sketch.js
var capture;
var recording = false;
var c;
var gif;
function setup() {
c = createCanvas(320, 240);
capture = createCapture(VIDEO);
capture.size(320, 240);
capture.hide();
setupGif();
}
function draw() {
background(255);
image(capture, 0, 0, 320, 240);
if (recording && frameCount % 3 == 0) {
gif.addFrame(c.elt, {delay: 1, copy: true});
}
}
function mousePressed() {
recording = !recording;
if (!recording) {
gif.render();
}
}
function setupGif() {
gif = new GIF({
workers: 2,
quality: 40
});
gif.on('finished', function(blob) {
window.open(URL.createObjectURL(blob));
setupGif();
});
}
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PC-Four commented May 22, 2018

@Torwegia any chance of sharing how you did the link to save the gif?

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sandzu commented Sep 12, 2018

bump, I'm having an issue where gif.on('finished') never triggers.

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