Re: [Plplot-general] Animation with plplot

[Valery P. <pi...@is...>]

 Maurice LeBrun wrote:
> Valery Pipin writes:
>  > On Thursday 15 February 2007, Werner Smekal wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > > Our ninth example has 5 separate pages which the -fam option turns
>  > > > into 5 separate files.  I have also shown the use of the -fflen
>  > > > option which (in this case) insures the numerical suffix is three
>  > > > characters (in case you have more than 100 pages).  I assume ffmpeg
>  > > > would have no trouble converting a collection of gif images into a
>  > > > format suitable for animations, but I would be interested in exactly
>  > > > which end format you have chosen.
>  > >
>  > > one additional note:
>  > >
>  > > You can use Imagemagick to make an mpeg file. Just type (after you
>  > > made the plots with PLplot and the family option):
>  > >
>  > > convert -quality 80 *.png output.mpg
>  >
>  > I have used this way.
>  > I would advice to make gif animation in addition.
>  > The problem is that not every windows pc can play mpg files.
>  > Gif animation can be shown in every web browser.
>
> A couple additional comments:
>
>  - if you create as a series of .gif or .png files, you can use the
> ImageMagick "animate" program to display them, with a fair level
> of control over how they are displayed (speed, etc).  I haven't had
> uniformly positive experience with it but it's not bad.
Thanks for this hint!  I did not  know about "animate"