A Tool to make timelapse gifs based on the data store of the Reddit r/place archive provided by u/mncke. Plan to have the script generate serialised UObjects for visualisation in Unreal Engine 4.
This script is using data collected by reddit user u/mncke.
The data source is described in these two reddit posts:
- To run this script you need to have python 3.6 and the following python libraries: pillow 4.0, imageio 2, progressbar2.
- In the same directory you'll need base.png which is contained in this zip file.
- You'll also need the diffs.bin file which is in this zip file.
- Script needs about 3 gigs of ram
- When you're installing python 3.6.1 make sure you also install pip and add python to your path.
- After you've installed python, run these commands to make sure you're setup right:
python --version
pip3 --version- You should see python 3.6.1 and pip 9.0.1
- Run the following pip commands to install the required libraries
pip3 install pillow
pip3 install imageio
pip3 install progressbar2- Download the latest version of the makegif.py.
- Next you need base.png and diffs.bin. You can either grab placedata.zip that has both files, or grab them from the original links above.
- Unzip these files in the same folder as makegif.py
- The script uses Epoch timestamps for script parameters. Use this handy tool to get Epoch timestamps. The data archive runs from Friday, 31-Mar-17 19:01:00 UTC to Monday, 03-Apr-17 16:58:41 UTC.
usage: makegif.py [-h] [--silent] [x1] [y1] [x2] [y2] [timestamp] [delay]
Make timelapse gifs of r/place - Based on data archive provided by u/mncke
positional arguments:
x1 X coordinate of pixel to start gif from, valid values: 1-1000,
default: 0.
y1 Y coordinate of pixel to start gif from, valid values: 1-1000,
default:0.
x2 X coordinate of pixel to finish gif from, valid values: 1-1000,
must be greater than x1, default: 1000.
y2 Y coordinate of pixel to finish gif from, valid values: 1-1000,
must be greater than y1, default: 1000.
timestamp Epoch timestamp to start gif from. r/place data starts from:
1490986860 and ends at 1491238721, default: 1490986860.
delay Delay in seconds between snapshots/gif frames, default:60.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--silent Don't display progress bars, runs a bit faster.- To make a gif from pixel (400, 400) to (600,600), starting a 36 hours into the archive, with a snapshot every 90 seconds
python makegif.py 400 400 600 600 1491080460 90- To make a gif from (300, 700) to (450, 900), starting a day into the archive, with a snapshot every 5 minutes
python makegif.py 300 700 450 900 1491073260 300- If you don't put in any parameters it uses default values, (1, 1) to (1000, 1000), full archive timespan and a snapshot every 60 seconds. (warning this takes a while)
python makegif.py- If you want to speed up the script add the optional parameter --silent to turn off progress bars. You can always tail the log file placedata.log to watch progress.
python makegif.py 300 700 450 900 1491073260 300 --silent- If you find any bugs or would like a feature feel free to add an issue
- This script takes the base.png and diffs.bin created by u/mncke and stores that data in two SQLite tables.
- Loads that data into memory from SQLite tables
- Generate a gif for a given timestamp range.
- Command line interface to make a timelapse gif from a starting timestamp to the end of archive data.
- Add ability to make gifs with an ending timestamp that's taken from script parameters
- Add script parameters to specify gif filename
- Add script parameters to generate PNG and PNG sequences
- GUI
- Generate serialized Unreal Engine UObjects on disk
- Add unit tests
- Pack for pypi