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[aninterloper]

Well, investigations into the frames, colormap, and plaintext of the image reveal no hidden info. Of the 6 questions, "why" and "how" are left out of the title. Y?

The circles could almost be a series of conic sections.

[sixsidedsquare]

Ok, breaking down what we have a little more here.
The gif is 300x300 pixels and has 16 frames as follows:

1. - 0.1 s of all black
   
2. - 1.0 sec of circle radius 132 px
   
3. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 93 px
   
4. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 65 px
   
5. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 39 px
   
6. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 21 px
   
7. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 3 px
   
8. - 1.0 sec of all white
   
9. - 0.5 sec with "Hello!"
   
10. - 1.0 sec of all white
    
11. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 3 px
    
12. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 21 px
    
13. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 39 px
    
14. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 65 px
    
15. - 0.1 sec of circle radius 93 px
    
16. - 1.0 sec of circle radius 132 px
    

The circle isn't quite in the center too, being instead centered at X=153/154 and Y= 156/157.
Now to digest this some and see if anyone comes up with anything.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Silly, huh?

How about "Lassie fell down the well after Timmy."?

Seriously... Unless there's some stegging going on, I have no clue.

[rose]

this probably has no relavance but I recall there being a famous puzzle from Lockjaw ( I think) called where.gif

[pancito]

[cjr22]

My guess is that it's some kind of rebus / dingbat rather than your traditional hidden message thing.

Having said that, I've no idea for a solution

[pancito]

[pancito]

Trying to give you some perspective on this...

[sixsidedsquare]

I'm thinking it must be one of those 'lateral thinking'/word puzzle things, that I can't seem to find an accepted name for. The ones like:

[aninterloper]

Oh, is it "Ohio"? Like the old joke about the state that's high in the middle and round on both ends?

[Rogi Ocnorb]

D'Oh!

[pancito]

[GreenWindmill]

Ok, so the "shrinking/growing" in the first post is relevant and the second animation gives some perspective?

This makes me think that the second post is designed to indicate that the circle itself doesn't change size, i.e. the shrinking and growing effect is due to our relative position to it.

So, if the black flash is just a bookend and the musings above are correct then the sequence appears to begin with a close up view of the circle from which we move away, a "hello" then appears from the circle and we approach again.

None of this has led me to any inspiration - I'm left with a nagging impression of travel/exploration, the circle keeps making me think of the moon or planets but that doesn't seem right.

ET's ship leaving him then coming back when he calls?!?!

No real insight there but maybe someone else will be prompted to think again?!?!

[pancito]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

If that's all we get, then...
How about:
"Hello! Do You Know My Name?"?
Written by Cecile Jeruchim
Toronto, Ontario: Longmans Canada Limited.
1963.