> or cinemagraph, as these tasteful creations are also known as
Just so you know, this is not a cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is not just a synonym for "high-quality animated gif". A cinemagraph isolates one moving part from an otherwise static picture (and the assumption is that at least some motion is frozen - ie, not everything that could be moving is moving).
Re:Facebook Home
by trhtrsh on Thursday April 04, 2013 @03:04PM
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Facebook is calling it a cinemegraph (see the HTML snippet in sibling commment) as part of their comprehensive war to redefine every word in the English language to be something of theirs.
Just so you know, this is not a cinemagraph. A cinemagraph is not just a synonym for "high-quality animated gif". A cinemagraph isolates one moving part from an otherwise static picture (and the assumption is that at least some motion is frozen - ie, not everything that could be moving is moving).
It's kind of like spot-color[0], but for motion.
Lots of good examples: http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot_color