[GRASSLIST:2648] Re: grid 3d question

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 02:22:18PM +0000, Kevin Slover wrote:
> I have got more of a general grid 3d question...
> I am looking to be able to "animate" an ascii file in the format of
> xyzt.  Eventually, I am looking to move this over to Vis5d, however, at
> this time, I am starting to see what it might look like using GRASS,
> being as grass is more user friendly than Vis5d.  I have dowloaded part
> of the Grid 3d modules, and am trying to play with them, though I am
> getting error messages everywhere...etc etc.  Does someone have a
> suggestion on the import and use of xyzt files??
> Note, my programming abilities are fairly limited.  I have just started
> using Perl to get the data in the format I need to...so any helpful
> suggestions on that as well would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks!!

Hi Kevin,

as easy solution is to import the data as raster maps,
then use "xganim" to display the list of maps animated.
Note that only the current CVS version (so also the CVS snapshot)
contains a working version of "xganim".

Hope this helps,

 Markus