I saw a fun post on Hacker News about creating wigglegrams, and decided to try it for myself. Since I live in the Google ecosystem, I had Claude rewrite the code for Google Photos support. However, because of some limitations to the Google API:
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Oh well, I could still use the script with local files. I created a Google Takeout request for my photos, and it returned ~560GB worth of 50GB zips. That's a lot of photos! I wanted to test it on my most recent photos first, but Takeout doesn't give any indication whether Part 1 contains my oldest or newest photos. I suppose this is why I pay for gigabit internet...
Regardless, I eventually downloaded everything and found some cool ones. It took a few minutes to process each 50GB directory, and produced roughly 1,500 wigglegrams with 15+ years worth of photos from my library. Most of them were two-frame animations like this.
Pretty neat, and perhaps closest to the definition of a wigglegram, but I like them more when they have 2+ frames and become mini animations instead. Kids and pets are the best because they move in unpredictable ways while posing. These are some of my favorites to share.
Fun stuff. Thanks John for giving me a reason to walk down memory lane.