animation_test

animation_test, an Octave code which illustrates how to create an animation.

To my surprise and disgust, the only option that I could get to work involved creating a sequence of PNG files, and then using a system() call to the imagemagick convert() function to create a GIF file. There are other, much better animation file formats, but between the limitations of Octave, convert() and ubuntu, this is the best (and worst) I could do.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

animation_test is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

graphics_test, an Octave code which illustrates how various kinds of data can be displayed and analyzed graphically.

peak_movie, an Octave code which creates a sequence of frames, and then an animation or movie from the data displayed by the peaks() function.

Source Code:

• gif_animation.py, the source code.
• gif_animation.sh, runs all the tests.
• gif_animation.txt, the output file.

• output.gif, the animation.