Re: Mathematica generating gifs for avi's
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- Subject: [mg29803] Re: Mathematica generating gifs for avi's
- From: "Borut L" <borut at email.si>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:26:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
Mathematica for PC can save as GIF (when saving a sequence of plots, that
means aGIF (A for animated)). You can use other program (e.g. Animation
Shop) to convert aGIF into AVI.
How to make aGIF under Mathematica? e.g.
MakeAGif[name_String, src_] :=
(
SetDirectory["D:\!Users\Borut"];
Export[name, src, "GIF",
ConversionOptions -> {
"Transparency" -> RGBColor[1, 1, 1],
"Disposal" -> Background,
"Loop" -> True}
] // Timing
);
I would like to mention the slowness of Mathematica saving sequential GIFs.
Very slow! Why's that?
Mathematic for MAC, as far as I know (I don't posses it), is able to save
animations as MOV (QuickTime).
I heard there are inovative designs engaged for next Mathematica graphics
userface. Is this so?
Well, bye!
Borut from Slovenia
<axc at whitesnake.ces.cwru.edu> wrote in message
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>
> you're right it works. but listen to the steps i have to take to
> generate avi's for my presentation. nevermind generating names such as
> 'frame00001.gif' so that the shareware converter (in this case gif
> movie gear) loads them in the correct order - even so there are always
> several frames out of sequence and i have to permute them manually,
> for each .avi. this is obviously a bug in gif-movie-gear but it could
> be avoided if Mathematica had the ability to generate avi's directly,
that'd
> also save the step of having to save each frame as a gif. i hear this
> is possible on macs but not pc's. since animations are becoming more
> common will Mathematica/pc include this function in the future?
>
> by the way here's two i created with Mathematica + gif-movie-gear, showing
> gait generation at two different paramter values (from random initial
> conditions, gaits stabilize to metachronal and tripod resp)