Hey, look; it's Creativename.
How did I miss this post of yours; I checked here multiple times over the course of the past several months and thought I saw nothing.
@your animations: I'd replace the word "weird" with the word "interesting."
Within those two frames, my mind has room to interpret the motion in more ways to fill in those spaces of time in which it's not directly stimulates by changes in imagery. In the first gif, for example, I can imagine it expanding, then contracting, then expanding [...].
Core question (should you get around to seeing this post): why? What inspired you do animate these patterns?