How to Make Your Own

All of these patterns are made from a set of tiny animations that I call my animarbles, since I used marble-like textures to make up the frames.  You can download them here and use them freely. There are 12 animarble .gifs and also a black spacer and a transparent spacer. You don't have to put up a link to my site or anything like that if you use them.

Make them by placing the .gifs in a borderless table in htm pages. You can either place them 1 cell per gif or set the table to be a minimum pixel width of 16 x the number of gifs across. Don't put them next to each other in long rows without setting a minimum width, or they will wrap in browsers that are sized smaller than the table. Make your pattern with up to 12 separate colours, and use a different animarble.gif for each colour.  The black and transparent-spacer.gifs come in handy for transparent areas or as temporary spacer to keep in the table cells, so they hold their shape while putting in the different gifs (good if your working in a wysiwyg program).

Here's the new minimarbles, in 2 new sizes.

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