Questions on Mathematica's ability to create "moving pictures" from its graphical output, including exporting these animations to other formats.
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3D orbits and inaccuracy over time
I wrote a little program to use Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation to animate 3 planets orbiting a central star, but I have run into a problem. Here is the code that I used to create the program (I ...
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1answer
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Track object movement
Referring to this link I happen to realize that actually the trace being projected is dependent on an equation and not on disk or circle. Though I was presuming that it is getting traced because of ...
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rotating 3d text
Is it possible to create a 3d rotating text like this:
animation here.
Here is my try so far:
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Making mathematical animations with Mathematica
I recently stumbled upon the Cycloid and was working on finding its length and such when I found this animation on Wikipedia.
Strikingly pretty and small in size too (66KB)
So on searching how he ...
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How do I overlay corresponding values over each frame of an animation?
I recorded a phenomenon using video capturing (phen.avi, imported into Mathematica) and simultaneous measurement of some electrical properties of that phenomenon (a ...
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1answer
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How do I manipulate a 3D point plot?
I currently have a recursion done in 3D.
At the moment, I am able to manipulate the points, but I cannot use "Joined->True" to connect them
Currently this is what I have
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Why animator smoothes dynamic updates, or how to make pacman drink beer
How could I make a pacman drink beer in Mathematica?
This is what I have so far
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How do I save my animation/manipulation in pdf?
Is it possible to presserve my animation and manipulation plots in the pdf?
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How to use SaveDefinitions when using Rasterized Frames for a ListAnimate?
In another post (Is it possible to prerender animation in Wolfram Mathematica?) I got a good way to prerender frames in order to get a smooth animation using ListAnimate.
I need to save the Animation ...
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Animating the Lorenz Equations
I am trying to use the Animate command to vary a parameter of the Lorenz Equations in 3-D phase space and I'm not having much luck.
The equations are:
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How can I simulate a pot lid rotating around an axis that is quickly rotating?
How can I simulate the rotation of a pot lid about an axis that is quickly rotating as in the following image? I'm particular interested in the motion of the red dot.
Here is my attempt:
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Keeping axes fixed in an Animate of a 3D graphic
I am using the following code to animate a 20 3D ListPointPlots:
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How to create this four-dimensional cube animation?
This is a tesseract, a four-dimensional cube, which contains two cubes. Here, each side length of the smaller one is 1, while the side length of the bigger one is 2. How do make I it?
I am still ...
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In a Manipulate[], control timing of Autorun
I've made a gauge like instrument that will get used to prompt someone to maintain rhythmic breathing patterns during heart/brain coherence training.
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Why does animating images overlayed with graphics primitives take much longer than animating either individually?
So I start by making a list of images with
images = Image[ArrayPlot[Import[ (* filenames *) ]]]
Then I run some complicated code that extracts the coordinates ...
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How can I create a fountain effect?
Inspired by this (please use Chrome or Firefox), I tried to simulate it, but I couldn't do it. I'm not familiar with Dynamic. Here is my simple code:
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1answer
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Resetting an animation with a custom button
I have the following code, which accepts a function via an InputField, and then gradually draws that function in a Plot using ...
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Simple Animate[] question
I am trying to make a visualization of random process: coin flip.
What I want to visualize is the result of i-th try: 1 or 0 value (the dot) and the mean (line) at i-th step.
My code is as follows:
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How can I highlight a moving bar in an animation of a bar chart?
I wrote the following code, but I don't know how to highlight the moving bar.
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Is it possible to prerender animation in Wolfram Mathematica?
I have a DensityPlot which is evaluated for a long time. I wish to use it with animation, but it is absolutely inapropriate.
Is it possible to render animation ...
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How to stop Animate animation when reaching a defined value
I have following code
Animate[
Plot[myvariable x,{x,0,100}
],
{myvariable,0.1,1},AnimationRunning->If[myvariable==1,False,True]
]
How do I make the animation ...
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How to create animated snowfall?
Well, the title is self-explanatory. What sorts of snowfall can we generate using Mathematica? There are two options I suggest to consider:
1) Continuous GIF animations with smallest possible number ...
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1answer
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Combine a (2D)plot with an animation
I have a plot which is rather expensive to "present", and I want to create an animation on top of it.
EDIT:
"present" here does not just mean create the plot, but also to rasterize and present in on ...
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1answer
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Animating a circle to move along an curve
Basically, I want to move a graphic (such as a circle) along a given path (such as sin(x)). I was thinking that the trick might be making the x and y coordinates of the circle vary based on the ...
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How do I emulate MATLAB's comet plot?
I have tried the following code:
ParametricPlot[{Sin[12 u] Cos[u], Sin[12 u] Sin[u]}, {u, 0, 2 Pi}]
and it produced the following image:
MATLAB has a ...
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4answers
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Creating an animation illustrating the time-evolution of a pre-computed orbit
As the title says, I would like to use Mathematica in order to create an animation depicting the time-evolution of a three-dimensional (3D) orbit. To begin with, I have an ASCII file which contains ...
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Mathematica animation errors [closed]
Can someone please explain this to me? I made these function animations with my professor and they were working in his office but when he emailed them to me the animation windows showed up blank and ...
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How to eliminate the backward play in Export of Manipulate?
I find that the Export of Manipuate contains backforward play, see a simplified example:
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how to draw a moving point on a curve?
I almost remember an example that has a moving red point on a given curve, which will moving time and time again, with no controls...
now, here is my question: given a curve by
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1answer
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Why can't Mathematica parallelize this?
The following code makes mathematica print "ParallelTable::nopar1: [...] cannot be parallelized; proceeding with sequential evaluation."
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Animating mathematica.se logo
As we all know our site's logo was completely generated by Mathematica. I suppose it is quite natural to make the next step -- to generate the animated version of this logo. There's a lot of space for ...
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GIF won't speed up anymore when “DisplayDurations” is smaller than 0.015? [closed]
I'm trying to make a GIF expression with mathematica, everything went well, and here's my fruit ("DisplayDurations"->0.015):
When played in IE browser, the ...
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1answer
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How to do System dynamics simulations / diagrams in Mathematica?
System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system. What ...
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3answers
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How can I completely remove the ListAnimate controls?
I want to use ListAnimate to show an animation but I want to remove the slider and all of the buttons from the top and show the animation panel only. There is an ...
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3answers
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How to save animation in mp4 format instead of avi?
I'd like to save Manipulate[] output so that I can embed an mp4 in my pdf document (using the media9 latex package). I've done this successfully in the past by ...
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Animation of Differential Equations from NDSolve with ParametricPlot3D and Evaluate
I have a system of differential equations (referred to as "s") and use NDSolve to obtain the solution. I substitute the interpolated functions for the original ...
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Exporting to quicktime in linux version?
In MMA (8.0.0/Linux), I tried to to create an animation using the command
Export["s4s5mov.mov", listOfFigures]
and got the output
Doing a little research, one ...
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Animate the scattering of a Wave Packet
I know mathematica is probably not the best choice for intense numerical integration, but its the only software I know.
I would like to create an animation (not real-time, but pre-render the ...
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1answer
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Make ControlActive respond faster within Animate
The following code uses Animate to create an animation that displays as {t, "Inactive"} when paused, and {t, "Active"} when running:
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1answer
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How to add a short wav music clip into a Mathematica animation
I have the following Mathematica animation:
Animate[Plot[k*x^2, {x, -2, 2},
PlotRange -> {{-2, 2}, {-10, 10}}], {k, -2, 2, 0.1}]
I also have a sound file ...
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How can I make a list animation of images that fade in and out?
I'm not sure how to get a "fade in" effect.
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Is it possible to insert an animated image into Mathematica notebook?
I find it very convenient to use Mathematica notebooks to organise the codes + results.
I was wondering if it is possible to insert an animated image (say an animated gif) in the middle of a ...
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Color based on (discrete) derivative of function
I am making a very basic stock simulation. I want ListLinePlot to color my stock viewer based on whether the price went up or down from the previous price. Here is ...
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How can I animate a set of points imported from file?
I have an external program which generates a set of data - X points at the time t1, X points at the time t2 and so on. These points are stored in CSV file and I can change the format if necessary.
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When exporting an (animated) GIF, is it possible to specify the size of the color palette?
I've exported an animation to animated GIF, which generated a 15mb file. I've been asked if I could regenerate the file, limiting it to only 16 colors, but I can't find any documentation on how I ...
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Rotating an image along a Möbius strip?
I am trying to make a GIF which will be a rotating Möbius strip, with some text printed along its (one!) side. I am trying to (obviously) do this in Mathematica.
After some diligent searching and a ...
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Animating a rotating disk
I have a system with 3 degrees of freedom that I want to know if it is possible to visualise with Mathematica in the two-dimensional $X-Y$ plane. I have a plane ...
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Animating a 3-D arrow given the vector's x, y, and z components as a function of time
I am trying to show how a vector M varies over time. I have the following code:
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Animate a position change along the curve for every iteration
I've only had few previous experiences on Mathematica before. So basically an entry-level question that harasses a rookie like me.
I made the following attempt using bisection method to calculate ...
