From vu2gmc@navier.ucsb.edu Sat Feb 18 22:03:41 1995 Path: solitaire.cv.nrao.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!csusac!csus.edu!csulb.edu!library.ucla.edu!ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!vu2gmc From: vu2gmc@navier.ucsb.edu (Sitaram Ramaswamy) Newsgroups: comp.graphics.gnuplot Subject: Re: How to make movies on gnuplot? Date: 18 Feb 1995 05:17:54 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara Lines: 76 Message-ID: <3i3vu2$s2h@yuggoth.ucsb.edu> References: <3hh6m0$ecp@serv.hinet.net> <3hvodk$qpt@deimos.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: navier.ucsb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Bernhard Reiter (breiter@briseis.mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE) wrote: > In article <3hh6m0$ecp@serv.hinet.net>, chiao@hntp2.hinet.net (chiao) writes: > |> > |> Is there any one knows how to make movies on gnuplot? > |>For some reason,I need to investigate the vibration of a certian 3D structure. There is a suite of programs called ImageMagick (check comp.archives for a recent posting regarding it) and the author is John Cristy, (E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Incorporated) A possible site could export.x.org in the contrib directory It's a wonderful FreeDist tool for image display, manipulation, conversion-to-other-formats, morphing (basic), AND animate(ing) a set of images. ^^^^^^^^^^^ It will be worth the the exercise if you choose to get it. It's X11 specific so if you are on a Mac/PC set up this might not be for you though you can check it up. In addition to supporting it's own image format (MIFF), it also supports (conversion to and from) the following formats ALPHA Raw alpha bytes. AVS AVS X image file. BMP Microsoft Windows bitmap image file. CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes. EPS Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file. FAX Group 3. FITS Flexible Image Transport System. GIF Compuserve Graphics image file. GRAY Raw gray bytes. HISTOGRAM IRIS SGI RGB image file. JPEG MIFF Magick image file format. MTV PCD Photo CD. PCX ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file. PICT Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file. PNM Portable bitmap. PS Adobe PostScript file. PS2 Adobe Level II PostScript file. RGB Raw red, green, and blue bytes. RLE Utah Run length encoded image file; read only. SUN SUN Rasterfile. TEXT raw text file; read only. TGA Truevision Targa image file. TIFF Tagged Image File Format. VICAR read only. VIFF Khoros Visualization image file. X select image from X server screen. XC constant image of X server color. XBM X11 bitmap file. XPM X11 pixmap file. XWD X Window System window dump image file. YUV Raw Y, U, and V bytes. U and V, normally -0.5 through 0.5, are normalized to the range 0 through 255 to fit within a byte. So you can dump you gnuplot output to a set of images and then combine them to make a movie using ImageMagick tools. I assume you already know how to generate 'gif' or 'pbm' images using gnuplot and can automate the process. In case you don't drop me a note. I am not associated with ImageMagick in any way, but I think this is an excellent suite of image manipulation programs. If you check it out and like it, be sure to drop the author a note thanking him for the effort that he's put into it. -Ram -vu2gmc@squid.ucsb.edu