Gif: "What is a Cinemagraph?"

I've recently slightly updated the definition of the Cinemagraph. Many people seem to think that artificially stopping some aspect of the picture is necessary - it is not. Here's a link to our definition. Note that I've spoken to or read articles from dozens of Cinemagraph makers, including some people who pioneered this art form, to make this definition.What is a Cinemagraph anyways?Cinemagraph BasicsA cinemagraph is a high quality gif. It needs a certain resolution (something like Tumblr's limitation of image widths) and a good colour palette.A cinemagraph is very smoothly looped. There should not be a noticeable "seam" to a cinemagraph.The loop creates a certain quality of motion. This is subtle, but important. The quality of the movement is what defines the feel of the cinemagraph. It should be well crafted, smooth, and natural within the boundaries of the universe of the cinemagraph.A Cinemagraph has an immobile frame of reference. Just like a photograph, the "world" of a cinemagraph doesn't move.A Cinemagraph is distinct from a Plotagraph. Cinemagraphs typically are sourced from videos and are made by looping existing movement; Plotagraphs are sourced from photos and are made by adding artificial movement.All definitions include these things; these are the silver (not golden) rules of Cinemagraphy, in that they can clearly help us define what is not a cinemagraph, though they don't really give us a definitive answer about what is a cinemagraph.Types of CinemagraphsThere are a couple varieties of cinemagraph.Living Moment CinemagraphsThese cinemagraphs take a moment and preserve it. The quality of the movement is such that there is no particular part of the cinemagraph that is artificially frozen; any parts that aren't in motion would not be in motion if the cinemagraph was a video. The difference between this kind of cinemagraph and a video is that the moment has a loop, whereas a video does not; this moment is eternal, whereas a video is transient, i.e. each instance of the video recreates the moment, which moves along a timeline from beginning to end, but the cinemagraph's timeline is circular instead of linear. No beginning, no ending. One particularity of this kind of cinemagraph is that any one frame of it should be a good photograph. This kind of cinemagraph is popular in IWDRM, but here are some examples from this subreddit:A cinemagraph by Jamie BeckFound this on /bBeach of PerditionFall RainIsolated Movement CinemagraphsThese cinemagraphs take a normally busy scene and freeze it as a photograph, and then preserve the motion of one particularly small part of said photograph. This is more clearly different from a video than the "Living Moment" type above; it's taken a clearer step away from IWDRM, and these types are usually about subtlety. Another clear distinction is that the underlying, unmoving photograph should be a good photograph, but there are some frames of the isolated movement that would be detrimental to an overall picture (not every frame is as equally captivitating, nor does it need to be). F. David Robbins seems to favour this and here are some examples of this kind of cinemagraph from this subreddit:Pretty Light Show500 Days of SummerThe KissHanging Out via /r/Cinemagraphs https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinemagraphs/comments/9pb7k3/what_is_a_cinemagraph/?utm_source=ifttt