stop motion animation on linux

A quick howto...

1. Take a series of photos on your digital camera.
2. Copy them onto your linux box.
3. shrink the photos to a more managable size:
   mogrify -verbose -resize 600x400 -quality 60% *.JPG
4. Preview the animation with animate:
   animate -delay 8 *
5. Optionally rotate the image to match the exif information from your camera (mine was sideways):
   exiftran -ai *
6. Convert the jpg files to png:
   mogrify -format png *.JPG
   
7. Create the flash animation from the PNG files:
   png2swf -r 15 -o flower2.swf -v -X 399 -Y 600 *.png
8. Create an html file to hold the animation containing the following:
   

   <object>
   <param name="movie" value="flower2.swf" />
   <param name="loop" value="true" />
   <param name="quality" value="high" />
   <embed src="flower2.swf" width="399" height="600" />
   </object>
   

9. Write a blog article to tell everyone about it ;-)
   "history" is a handy command for reviewing your activities for writing up your achievements.
   

And here it is, providing I've kept up with my hosting fees and not been slashodotted: