Re: [Visualpython-users] animation

[Matthew K. <mak...@un...>]

I'm not sure if exporting to Pov-Ray first is absolutely necessary. 
There are software products out there that allow you to take screen caps 
or create videos from anything on your computer's screen, including 
presumably the VPython graphics window.  Try looking at:
<http://www.techsmith.com>
who make SnagIt for taking screen shots and Camtasia for making videos.

-Matt

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> The only thing I know of immediately available is the Pov-Ray export 
> facility (see http://vpython.org home page). This module lets you export 
> individual frames as Pov-Ray scene descriptions. Then you can use 
> Pov-Ray (which is cross-platform freeware) to render the scenes (in 
> glorious ray-traced glory). After that you could use some freeware 
> program to stitch the frames together as a movie.
> 
> It would be nice to have a lighter-weight scheme for generating, say, a 
> set of gifs.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> At 02:43 PM 7/23/2002 -0700, Bruce Peterson wrote:
> 
>> Is there any code available to save individual frames as bit maps 
>> (e.g. bmp files on windows or something more sophisticated such as gif 
>> files). The idea is that a sequence of these can be made into a 
>> movie-- both for portability and for instances when the real time 
>> performance of vpython is slow (I know you lose the interactivity, but 
>> in some cases it would be worth it).
> 
> 
> 
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