Splitting GIF Frames In Ruby on Rails

I'm messing around with rails and hope to try some different image manipulation techniques. My main goal is to learn more about different image formats and the various ways to interact with them.

The first thing I'm attempting to do is split the frames in a GIF image and randomly reorder them into a new image. I've researched enough to know to use RMagick and plan to install it the next time I decide to sit down and work on this. The one thing I haven't been able to find is documentation on creating GIF images at all, let alone isolating the frames of an existing GIF.

Does anyone ha开发者_JAVA技巧ve any resources or experience in doing what I'm talking about? If so, could you give me a general area to start tinkering?

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