[Mapserver-users] Animated layers

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

Are you referring to morphing? That is to create N intermediate 
polygons that will transform the first into the second?

-Steve

On 19 Sep 2003 at 7:25, Steve Young wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> I'm looking for some ideas or examples of animated layers. I have in
> mind creating a time-series layer of land use change. The Mapserver
> user would zoom to their area of interest then click an 'animate'
> button and have Mapserver, with the help of some PHP, cycle through a
> time sequence. The layer format could be raster or vector. I think it
> would be relatively easy to get something working, but to have it work
> well, i.e. smoothly under varying server load, would be something
> else. One route might be outputting Mapserver gifs to a gif animating
> utility, then delivering its output to the browser. Sound feasible?
> 
> On an off-topic, but related note: Does anyone know of
> programs/utilities that can fill in spatial data gaps in
> time-sequences? i.e. Take two polygons, one as a start point and one
> as an end point then create fill-in polygons. I suspect there's a
> whole industry devoted to such intangibles, but I haven't found it
> yet.
> 
> Thanks for any help and ideas.
> 
> Steve Young
> 
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