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Pretty interesting! Increases in size by ~4KB every second though. Probably would take a toll on your browser if you left it open for a while. :)



The server could finish sending frames and let the gif loop after 12/24 hours have elapsed.


This would fail to account for things like leap seconds


For 24 hours, that's still a 345MB image :)


Looking at the code and the actual file generated, it seems that the image is not compressed at all, using one byte per pixel. It also defines a palette of 128 colors, which is mostly unused. A bit of compression would drastically reduce the image size, this kind of monochrome images of axis-aligned blocks compress very well !




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