Questions on Mathematica's ability to create "moving pictures" from its graphical output, including exporting these animations to other formats.
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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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8answers
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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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2answers
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Animating a Voronoi Diagram
edit: Excellent answers have been provided and I made an animation which is suitable for my use, however, all the examples rely on bitmap/rasterized data; is there a vector based approach?
I would ...
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9answers
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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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4answers
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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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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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1answer
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Does Mathematica support variable frame rate for any video format, in analogue of GIF-style “DisplayDurations”?
The good old GIF animation format allows us to set the duration of each individual frame in the animation separately. This is especially useful if some frames in ...
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Morphing Graphics, color and location
I would like to make a small animation :
1-We start with a random distribution of gray points :
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2answers
662 views
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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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When importing GIF animation, how to find the correct list of “DisplayDurations”?
When importing GIF animations with variable frame durations, the settings for "DisplayDurations" are not recovered correctly. As an example, I'm using the movie from this earlier question:
Here I'm ...
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3answers
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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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1answer
903 views
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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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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Animation: presenting events that persist in time
I have a list of events that occurred on specific moments in time. In the example below, the three events occurred at 23:09, 23:13 and 23:17. I was able to build an animation that flows from time ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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votes
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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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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3answers
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Animate ParametricPlot3D for two different parametric equations
I want to write a computer program to generate 3-D plots (with x-y-t axes) to demonstrate the evolution of the two missiles in the following case:
i. $x = 100t$, $y = 80t-16t^2$ for $0\leq t\leq 5$ ...
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votes
2answers
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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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2answers
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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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Exporting images as .avi
Here's a list of images:
images = Table[ExampleData[i], {i, ExampleData["TestImage"]}];
And according to the reference "Export exports a list of graphics, ...
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1answer
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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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4answers
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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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2answers
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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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votes
1answer
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Create a “perspective animation”
Inspired by How can this confetti code be improved to include shadows and gravity?
I would like to create my new experiment/stimuli using Mathematica. The idea is to study how people move their eyes ...
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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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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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votes
1answer
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Rotating 3DPlot into animated gif
I'm trying to make an animated gif of a 3D plot by rotating the plot in its middle, around a vertical axis.
I used the tricks gave by F'x and Heike in this thread autorotating 3D plot but 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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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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1answer
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What changes in Dynamic have occurred from Mathematica 7 to Mathematica 8 that might induce incompatibilities?
I have a function that outputs a Manipulate (say
FAnimated[params_]:= Manipulate[F[params,t], {Time, Animator[t]}]
where F ...
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votes
4answers
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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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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 ...
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votes
2answers
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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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3
votes
1answer
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Incorporating an additional graphics element when using Animate and ParametricPlot3D
I'm trying to animate some curves that wrap around a cylinder. OK so far:
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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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2answers
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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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3answers
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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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2answers
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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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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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