making gif from images using imageio in python

Question

I have tried reading a lot of examples online and found imageio is the perfect package for it. Also found examples written in here.

I have just followed the example as shown and tried the following

import imageio as io import os file_names = sorted((fn for fn in os.listdir('.') if fn.startswith('surface'))) #making animation with io.get_writer('surface.gif', mode='I', duration=0.5) as writer:     for filename in file_names:         image = io.imread(filename)         writer.append_data(image) writer.close() 

and another example.

images = [] for filename in file_names:     images.append(io.imread(filename)) io.mimsave('surface1.gif', images, duration = 0.5) 

both of these do not work. And basically i only see the first frame from the gif and a blink and finish. The duration is set 0.5secs, so it should work fine. I might have been missing out something here.

Answer 1

This works for me:

import os import imageio  png_dir = '../animation/png' images = [] for file_name in sorted(os.listdir(png_dir)):     if file_name.endswith('.png'):         file_path = os.path.join(png_dir, file_name)         images.append(imageio.imread(file_path)) imageio.mimsave('../animation/gif/movie.gif', images)