[LAU] [OT] Creating images/videos on the commandline

[Lorenzo Sutton]

Hi Jeanette,

On 11/07/17 16:56, Jeanette C. wrote:
> Hey hey,
> this doesn't belong here, but probably nowhere else really. I'd like to
> create systematic images/a short video on the commandline. By systematic
> I mean, not pictures, but more like colour effects. Evolving shapes,
> colour changes. Is there a tool to achieve this on the Linux commandline?

Have you considered ImageMagick, an image 'swiss knife'  which can 
convert and manipulates images but can also do stuff in terms of  image 
generation? (And if you consider video as a sequence of images, it could 
come in handy). Here is a page with some 'generation' snipplets:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/canvas/

Hope this might help.
Lorenzo