Re: Animation
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- Subject: [mg16578] Re: Animation
- From: Martin Kraus <mkraus at theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 23:54:56 -0500
- Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen, Germany
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Naum Phleger wrote: > > I have a 3-D image generated on Mathematica that I would like to rotate > on a web page. There are about three possibilities: 1) Convertion to an animated gif or QuickTime movie. Useful if the graphics are too complex for the next two possibilities. 2) Convertion to VRML with VRMLConvert, see http://www.ma.iup.edu/MathDept/Projects/VRMLConvert/ (not possible for animations AFAIK) 3) using my Java applet LiveGraphics3D: see http://theorie3.physik.uni-erlangen.de/~mkraus/Live.html The applet supports interactive rotation as well as animations (even both things at the same time :) It has also some additional features like stereo graphics, hyperlinks or bitmap backgrounds. > I am first trying to rotate it with Mathematica but I am > having trouble with the animation. I can make a table of objects that I > want to animate (display in rapid succession). I load the > Graphics`Animation` package and then use the ShowAnimation command. I also > can express my set of pictures with a parameter t running from 0 to 1 and > tried using the Animate[plot,{t,0,1}] command. Neither worked. Both just > displayed the pictures one at a time in a list. > Does the front end know how to animate? Yes. > If so what am I doing wrong? You did not read the manual. ;) See the online-help: Getting Started/Demos -> System Information -> Macintosh -> Starting Out -> Animations and Sound > If not then where can I view my animation? > I am using Mathematica 3.0.1 for the Mac on a power PC mac clone > -- > > Naum Phleger There are also some tools using MathLink and OpenGL to view and interactively rotated Mathematica graphics. (For links see also the LiveGraphics3D homepage.) Hope this helps Martin Kraus