I am working on the exercises in the book The Go Programming Language. In the first chapter, there is an exercise that generates a gif. I have run the program without errors, but have been unable to open the gif. It appears corrupt.
I am on Windows 10 and have tried to open the file in browsers, IfranView 64bit version 4.53, and the default Photos app.
Code:
// Lissajous generates GIF animations of random Lissajous figures.
package main
import (
"image"
"image/color"
"image/gif"
"io"
"math"
"math/rand"
"os"
)
var palette = []color.Color{color.White, color.Black}
const (
whiteIndex = 0 // first color in palette
blackIndex = 1 // next color in palette
)
func main() {
lissajous(os.Stdout)
}
func lissajous(out io.Writer) {
const (
cycles = 5 // number of complete x oscillator revolutions
res = 0.001 // angular resolution
size = 100 // image canvas covers [-size..+size]
nframes = 64 // number of animation frames
delay = 8 // delay between frames in 10ms units
)
freq := rand.Float64() * 3.0 // relative frequency of y oscillator
anim := gif.GIF{LoopCount: nframes}
phase := 0.0 // phase difference
for i := 0; i < nframes; i++ {
rect := image.Rect(0, 0, 2*size+1, 2*size+1)
img := image.NewPaletted(rect, palette)
for t := 0.0; t < cycles*2*math.Pi; t += res {
x := math.Sin(t)
y := math.Sin(t*freq + phase)
img.SetColorIndex(size+int(x*size+0.5), size+int(y*size+0.5),
blackIndex)
}
phase += 0.1
anim.Delay = append(anim.Delay, delay)
anim.Image = append(anim.Image, img)
}
gif.EncodeAll(out, &anim) // NOTE: ignoring encoding errors
}
I run the application in Powershell by evoking go run {programname}.go > out.gif
and by compiling and running ./{programname}.exe > out.gif
.
How can I figure out what's wrong with the gif and how can I generate it correctly?
I'm unable to reproduce your issue.
cmd.exe
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18362.239]
>go version
go version devel +89d300b821 Sun Jul 14 20:15:47 2019 +0000 windows/amd64
>go run lissajous.go > lissajous.gif
Firefox 68.0 (64-bit)
Menu -> Open File -> lissajous.gif
lissajous.go
(from the question):
// Lissajous generates GIF animations of random Lissajous figures.
package main
import (
"image"
"image/color"
"image/gif"
"io"
"math"
"math/rand"
"os"
)
var palette = []color.Color{color.White, color.Black}
const (
whiteIndex = 0 // first color in palette
blackIndex = 1 // next color in palette
)
func main() {
lissajous(os.Stdout)
}
func lissajous(out io.Writer) {
const (
cycles = 5 // number of complete x oscillator revolutions
res = 0.001 // angular resolution
size = 100 // image canvas covers [-size..+size]
nframes = 64 // number of animation frames
delay = 8 // delay between frames in 10ms units
)
freq := rand.Float64() * 3.0 // relative frequency of y oscillator
anim := gif.GIF{LoopCount: nframes}
phase := 0.0 // phase difference
for i := 0; i < nframes; i++ {
rect := image.Rect(0, 0, 2*size+1, 2*size+1)
img := image.NewPaletted(rect, palette)
for t := 0.0; t < cycles*2*math.Pi; t += res {
x := math.Sin(t)
y := math.Sin(t*freq + phase)
img.SetColorIndex(size+int(x*size+0.5), size+int(y*size+0.5),
blackIndex)
}
phase += 0.1
anim.Delay = append(anim.Delay, delay)
anim.Image = append(anim.Image, img)
}
gif.EncodeAll(out, &anim) // NOTE: ignoring encoding errors
}
The problem arises only if you use Powershell. I faced the same problem and solved it by executing the go run
command using cmd.