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Redraw the README mascot at 2x with more gestures - #53

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Redraws the README mascot so it is sharp, has clean edges in both themes, and does more than glance and blink.

  • No more light fringe. The current GIFs were recoloured from the earlier cream frames, and their edge pixels kept a 1px light grey outline that shows up on the dark page. These are drawn fresh from the mascot's vector shapes. Each file is edge-blended for its own GitHub background (#0d1117 dark, #ffffff light), and the faintest edge pixels are dropped rather than left as a fringe.
  • Sharp at README size. 400×400, twice the README's 200px display width, so it stays crisp on high-density screens. It was 282px before.
  • Smoother. 25 fps over a 12 s seamless loop, up from 20 fps over 6 s.
  • More gestures, same rook. Same amber body, same eyes-only face, same idle sway and breathing. The loop now goes: blink, glance left and right, curious head tilt (one eye wide, one narrowed), crouch-hop-land, happy ^ ^ eyes with a wiggle, a wink, getting drowsy then startling awake, a double blink.
  • README unchanged. Same filenames and <picture> markup.
  • Size. About 700 KB each, up from 186 KB, for twice the resolution and twice the loop length.

I checked frames from the whole loop on #0d1117, #22272e (dark dimmed) and #ffffff, and zoomed in on the edges and the base. There were no light or dark fringes, and nothing was left behind between frames during the hop.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

The GIFs were recoloured from the earlier cream frames, which left a 1px
light fringe on the edges, and at 282px they rendered soft at the
README's 200px width. These are redrawn from the mascot's vector shapes
at 400px and 25fps, edge-blended per theme (#0d1117 dark, #ffffff
light), with a 12s loop: glances, curious tilt, hop, happy eyes, wink,
drowsy-then-startled and a double blink.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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samyakLambda merged commit 71ee644 into LambdaTest:main Oct 12, 2026
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