File talk:Lame anima.gif

animation is hard to grasp

this animation I find quite confusing to watch. in one part of the animation n grows then suddenly starts to decrease. It has another transition in the opposite direction. I understand the intent to 'make a full circle' with this 'pulsing effect' but it's just quite hard to follow, if you don't already know what to expect.

Since the animation must be here for aiding study, it would help if it would be more easy to follow. For this I think it would be better if on the transitions, it would keep long stops, ie. +10 frames where nothing happens for each direction change (what I called a 'transition').

Alternatively, and that was my first thought, it could just pause at the end of the presented range and do not turn back but restart after a pause instead. I think that way it would be much easier to follow. Another gain with this attempt would be that the animation won't contain almost redundant images, ie. very close n values: (first when n grows, then when n decreases).

The reason for the creator to go this 'pulsing' way seems to be that this way [s]he doesn't need to start with a square what is 'not very visible' and can start with a rounded-edged rectangle that is visible right on the first frame. But following this the square would not be very meaningful as the second frame either so he needs to change n in the opposite direction. But going in that direction he wouldn't ever reach the state of the square so he needs to turn back.

All this is very confusing. It would be simpler to follow if it would just start from a relatively big value for n (say 11) and go in one direction, down (n decreasing) until the animation reaches the semi-square state (n = 0.001 in this animation), then pause for several (say, 2) seconds and then restart.

I've created this version if anyone thinks it should be used instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Superellipse_anim.gif or File:Superellipse_anim.gif

The image was converted with ImageMagick, from the original one with the command line convert Lame_anima.gif -coalesce output_%02d.png and then recreated with convert -set delay 12 output_%d.png[28-56] -delay 150 output_57.png -loop 0 superellipse_anim.gif.