gnuplot and animation

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gnuplot and animation

by matrix72 :: Rate this Message:

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Dear all.

Can anyone with experience on how to create animation based on outputs from gnuplot please show me how to do it.

My problem is as follows:

1) I have multiple gnuplot files that represent a specific point in time.
2) Each file can be indepedently viewed using gnuplot, or otherwise be written to a postscript (ps) file to be viewed using an appropriate program such as ghostview.
3) However I want to join all these files together to one single animation file, but I'm not sure how.

I've previously tried to convert the ps files to gif files, and then created an animation out of these files. Unfortunately the quality is very low. Probably during the conversion from ps to gif, alot of information is lost. Anyone with a better solution please let me know.

Regards

Vinh Pham

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by Thomas Sefzick :: Rate this Message:

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plot into a gif-file directly, have a look at:

http://www.gnuplot.info/docs/node378.html

matrix72 wrote:
Dear all.

Can anyone with experience on how to create animation based on outputs from gnuplot please show me how to do it.

My problem is as follows:

1) I have multiple gnuplot files that represent a specific point in time.
2) Each file can be indepedently viewed using gnuplot, or otherwise be written to a postscript (ps) file to be viewed using an appropriate program such as ghostview.
3) However I want to join all these files together to one single animation file, but I'm not sure how.

I've previously tried to convert the ps files to gif files, and then created an animation out of these files. Unfortunately the quality is very low. Probably during the conversion from ps to gif, alot of information is lost. Anyone with a better solution please let me know.

Regards

Vinh Pham