Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
Summary
The article demonstrates creating an 88x31 pixel animated GIF from a text (Moby Dick) on POSIX systems using ImageMagick. It covers scaling down fonts, preprocessing text with shell tools (cat, tr, fold, sed, grep), and rendering frame-by-frame GIFs, including a Python bonus for centered text and a full-book GIF option. It highlights a lightweight, open-source workflow for tiny-display storytelling and text art.