Re: [Visualpython-users] Creating .png files in Linux

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

The URL you give is not valid.

Can you please explain the heart of your program, the function 
generateMovie? I don't understand what is involved in combining many png 
images into a movie. What is the format of the movie? How does one view 
such a movie?

Also, I don't see where/how the povexport facility is invoked (povexport 
is a routine available on the home page of vpython.org). Maybe it's 
buried inside the module "Scene3D" which you don't include?

Bruce Sherwood

Frédéric wrote:
> Le 14/1/2008, "Lorenzo Isella" <lor...@gm...> a écrit:
> 
> 
>>I am stepping back from my previous post, when I was asking how to
>>make a movie in vpython.
>>That was too ambitious then.
>>I managed to get some decent animations on my laptop (running Debian
>>testing); now my question is how to get at least a set of png (or any
>>other decent format; pdf, eps, jpg etc...) files with the "snapshots"
>>of my system.
>>I do not think I can do that directly from the window showing my
>>animation, but I have not been able to find online a code showing how
>>to achieve that.
> 
> 
> Why don't you use povexport? You generate .pov files, and you  can then
> process them by a simple script, and build the movie.
> 
> I attached a script I've done 3 years ago, for a student in order to
> generate this:
> 
>     http://www.gbiloba.org/download/SNP-definitif-640x480avi
> 
> 
> --
>    Frédéric