December 15, 2006 Programs
vplot2avi is a simple script for creating AVI movies from Vplot.
Requirements:
After creating movies, you can upload them to YouTube, Google Videos, etc. Here are some examples: A movie of fractal tree growth.
A movie of a 3-D data acquisition geometry that depicts one sail line with eight streamers
| Markdown | Result |
|---|---|
| *text* | text |
| **text** | text |
| ***text*** | text |
| `code` | code |
| ~~~ more code ~~~~ |
more code |
| [Link](http://www.example.com) | Link |
| * Listitem |
|
| > Quote | Quote |
Trying to get this to work, I had mixed results.
On my Mac 10.5.6 I was not able to view correctly. Wrong codec(s) for QT, and VLC had a bad colormap and a horizontal wraparound like n2 was a new pixels too large.
On XP, WinMedia simply refused- codec problem I think. VLC plays it nicely.
Simply for making .ppt movies, the animated gif’s work well enough. A couple extra calls to gifsicle were nice to make the files smaller (scale), and eliminate the black background (transparent).
gifsicle –merge –loopcount=forever –optimize –scale 0.5 –transparent “0,0,0”