Spent the last 4 hours understanding the GIF format, deep

Arpit Bhayani

Arpit Bhayani

Jun 19, 2022 • 1 min read


Spent the last 4 hours understanding the GIF format, deep dive into the internals is so much fun 🔥

I was always fascinated by how animated GIFs are stored and rendered. So wrote a quick decoder to understand how it is done. To be honest, it has to be the simplest file format ever!

ps: attaching the GIF I decoded and processed. Would recommend you all to give it a try.

Arpit Bhayani

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay - building Agent Studio, Ex-staff engg at GCP Memorystore & Dataproc, Creator of DiceDB, ex-Amazon Fast Data, ex-Director of Engg. SRE and Data Engineering at Unacademy. I spark engineering curiosity through my no-fluff engineering videos on YouTube and my courses