>>907927>i could just generate the final image (printing the data text in the image) and then using ffmpeg to make it idk, 0.5 fpsyes. that is what I was proposing. the 'montage' tool creates grids and strips of images, not slideshows.
example: for instance, I can use these two imagemagick commands to break apart this 9x5 grid of faces into 45 separate files, and then recombine them into a horizontal strip
convert heads.jpg -crop 11.111%x20% +repage piece_%d.png
montage piece_*.png -tile x1 montage.png