Re: Mathematica Animations by High School Students
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- Subject: [mg102059] Re: Mathematica Animations by High School Students
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: HPR <read at math.uvm.edu>
Alexei Boulbitch wrote: > Helen Read wrote: > >> One minor aggravation in all this: I find it baffling that exporting an >> animation from Animate or Manipulate from Mathematica into any video >> format results in the animation running forward and then backward. I >> have not found any way to get it to export so that it runs once in the >> forward direction only. The kids' animations look OK going forward and >> back, but there some things we would really like to run in one direction >> only. AnimationDirection->Forward doesn't do anything when you export, >> as far as I can tell. >> > > This problem I solved by saving as a movie a list of images, rather than Animate or Manipulate. Yes, I know how to do that, and have made animations that way for more than a decade. But that "old way" of animating would have been completely unsuitable for this group of students, who had no prior experience with Mathematica and only a single 75 minute session to create their animations. My point is that the new Animate and Manipulate tools *should* allow you to control the animation direction when exporting. The inability to do so limits their usefulness, and is something that should be corrected, IMO. -- Helen Read University of Vermont