[Ecolab-list] [r.standish@unsw.edu.au: FW: Ecolab GUI screengrabs etc]

[russell s. <hp...@hp...>]

Hi Jonathon,

Sorry for taking so long to respond. In truth, I only just got your
email, when I discovered that UNSW changed its email system a year
ago, and deleted the mail forwarder to my real email address (this
one). It would have been nice to have been warned. I had a whole
year's worth of email to comb through yesterday!

I have occasionally made animated GIF movies of ecolab running, which
I sent to colleagues, but I don't think I have any extant at present. All
permanent visualisations are in the form of graphs published in the
papers, which aren't too exciting from a lay public point of view.

Ecolab 4 (and now Ecolab 5) is based on Tk, which supports the
generation of postscript out of the box, but not SVG. I made the
animated movies by rendering each postcript frame to a bitmap using
ghostscript, then combining the frames into a movie using
mencoder. 

For EcoLab 6, I'm considering making an "EcoLab vector
graphics layer", with drivers for Tk, Java and probably Cairo (which
will give you SVG, IIRC). However, I don't have any timeline for EcoLab 6 -
its a question of when I get around to it (or anyone else).

Cheers

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From: Jonathan Chetwynd [j.c...@bt...]
Sent: 21 January 2010 20:24
To: Russell Standish
Subject: Ecolab GUI screengrabs etc

Ecolab GUI screengrabs etc

Russell,

can you point me to any visualisations of your work?

had you considered SVG?

I'm writing a paper and seeking ecology/evolution sims that are
accessible to the general public.

regards

Jonathan Chetwynd

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