[GRASSLIST:2949] Re: [GRASS5] FLY through in NVIZ

[Andrew]

The imagemagick tools contain  a function that will convert png sets to  
mng (mpg-like animation). I believe it is called 'convert'

Hamish wrote:

>>How can I make a fly through from NVIZ. I tried NVIZ
>>and could make only small animations. Thankyou in advance.
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>Check out the NVIZ tutorial.
>http://grass.baylor.edu/gdp/nviz/nviz_tut.html
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>especially: Basic Animation and Key frame Animation sections.
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>This has been updated for GRASS 5.3 & 5.7.
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>Also try compiling "d.nviz" in src.contrib/GMSL/
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>If you make a symlink from 'ppmtompeg' to 'mpeg_encode' somewhere in 
>your $PATH, r.out.mpeg will work, but this is MPEG-1 and not that great. 
>For more MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 support you can use The GIMP; or for high 
>quality & modern MPEG-4 and others try mplayer's mencoder or the ffmpeg 
>encoder. For high quality animations you can play in any web browser 
>(limited to a few hundred frames) use "gifsicle".
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>The netpbm programs are useful and will be needed between steps...
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>If anyone knows how to do animated PNGs I'd be interested in how that 
>is done..?
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>Hamish
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