“The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year (2012),” notes Oxford University Press’ Katherine Martin, “but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier.”

“3D” GIF (Image courtesy reddit.com)

NYPL’s sculpture hall GIFs (Image courtesy stereo.nypl.org)

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