January 16, 2026

Testing GIS animations in Ruby (exploratory work)

Today, early in the morning, after releasing GIF and animation support in ruby-libgd , together with updated documentation, versioning, and examples, I decided to do something very concrete:

spend the entire day stress-testing the alpha version of libgd-gis.

And what better way to test animations than to play a bit with real cities, casually moving around familiar maps… perhaps with a Pac-Man wandering through them.

The outcome was surprisingly solid. Not because everything is finished, but because the foundations are already strong enough that next week this can realistically evolve into a beta , or at least something very close to production from an architectural point of view.

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https://rubystacknews.com/2026/01/16/libgd-gis-v0-2-7-pre-alpha-1/

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