Questions tagged [animation]
Questions on Mathematica's ability to create "moving pictures" from its graphical output, including exporting these animations to other formats.
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Mathematica More Detailed Plot Around Asymptotes
I'm wanting to export some animations from Mathematica involving animating certain plots with asymptotes. At certain points in time, one of the parameters approaches a value where the function no ...
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Animated Plot: Tick Labels Disrupt Smooth PlotRange Expansion
I am making animations for educational purposes that compare projectile trajectories in different environments. Each animation starts with a reference trajectory. Then, at least one projectile is ...
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Export a table of Graphics objects and importing them back
I have a very long code that takes a lot of computation to produce some animations, and some other graphics. I would like to make a presentation notebook including the outputs of this code, but I do ...
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(Mathematica newbie) How to avoid this error ? Animate with predefined and nested functions [closed]
So im trying to do the Atwood machine for project and I try to do it as simple as possible. I defined a graphical functions for elements and also a function of move equation.
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AnimationRepetitions in Manipulate
Is there any way to stop an animation in Manipulate once it gets to the end? I assumed AnimationRepetitions would work like in ListAnimate, but it still loops for me. For Comparison:
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Animating a random walk of 3D water molecules?
Inspired by David G. Stork’s post https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/84097/10361, I tried to have the molecules perform a random walk
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Can you dynamically display the value of the slider in Animate?
It would be nice to be able to see the value of t changing as the animation progresses even if it is updating so fast that you have to stop the slider to read the number.
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How to Have Smaller Intervals in TimeSeries
I have a wolfram demonstration project with the following code:
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How do I make my slider invisible if I have an AnimationRunning?
So this is something very similar to my code
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Creating a Tracker for a Wolfram Demonstration
I am using a Wolfram demonstration that shows Newton’s Second Law: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TwoMassesOnInclinedPlaneWithPulley/
I am not too familiar with creating animations and I was ...
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Rotate 120-Cell Animation
I have seen some code (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/9593) to create an animation of a hypercube rotating, but I'm really struggling to understand how it works. I find it quite complicated. ...
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Dynamic plots using cpu rather than gpu
I'm trying to graph a few dynamic and animated graphs but am running into some issues.
Whenever they are moving, the graphs loose almost all clarity:
On checking the task bar, it seems like the ...
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Cannot use Plot inside Animate [duplicate]
I am trying to write code to animate a resonance curve so that I can visualize changes in a parameter. However, even though my Plot[] plots values, my ...
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How to generate a non-linear animation?
Here is a simple example, as time goes by, the speed of animation playback is increasing
The built-in function Animate seems to only play animation at a uniform ...
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Export infinite looping GIFs by default
frames=Table[Plot[Sin[x(1+a x)],{x,0,6}],{a,0,2,0.2}];
Export["test.gif",frames]
The above code runs in version 9.0 to get a infinite looping GIF ...
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Can this effect be achieved with Mathematica?
This is a very cool artistic simple tooling black and white text effect that would appear to be possible using Mathematica's animation tool. How can this animation be created in Mathematica?
Here's ...
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How can we improve transonic flow visualization?
With this code we can make 2D FEM simulation of transonic flow around airfoil NACA 0012 at Mach number of 0.925. It takes about 5 minutes on the XENIA-15 laptop of 32 GB memory with processor Intel ...
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Natural decay in the rate of Animation
I am trying to introduce a decay into the rate of animation of a graphics object by setting the AnimationRate in the Animator to a dynamic variable which is itself continually updated through a self-...
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Best way to make live animations
I often find myself in a situation where I want to see something animated 'live'. With this I mean I have some data, a function to update that data let's call it ...
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Simplifying code that displays a square rolling inside a circle
The vertex A,B of the square ABCD with side length $\sqrt{2}$ is on the circle with radius $\sqrt{2}$, vertex C,D is inside the circle, roll the square ABCD along the inside of the circle ...
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How can I avoid animations getting “dancy”?
I've done this animated GIF image. The trouble with it is that it gets "dancy" as you can see. For the organization of the items, I'm using the following code:
Which can be copied here:
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Unrolling a surface
The surface is determined by this parametric equation
ParametricPlot3D[{Cos[θ],Sin[θ],z(2+ Cos[θ])},{θ,-Pi,Pi},{z,0,1}]
How to unfold the surface in Mathematica? ...
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Animation for a chain reaction/ cascade type build up in mathematica [closed]
I am looking forward to suggestions to develop an animation such as a nuclear chain reaction/ particle cascade buildup (particularly as in the attached image: gluon cascade) using mathematica ...
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Making animation more efficient
I created some code to create a nice animation. However, it takes a considerable amount of time to run it. I would like to make it run in the least amount of time possible.
First, I load two packages ...
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How do I initialise a compound expression in Animate? Or, how do I have an expression evaluate on startup?
I have written a notebook with a few functions I defined.
These functions describe a way of generating graphs using 2 inputs.
e.g. graph[n_,s_] := Graph[...]
I have ...
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Plotting the velocity and acceleration vector of a particle
I want to create an animation containing a particle moving along a circle with tangential speed 2t and its normal and tangential acceleration vectors which I calculated to be a(T)=2 and a(N)=4t^2.
The ...
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Need help with a torus animation [closed]
Make a movie that shows creation of the torus in yet another manner. Namely, imagine a thin inflatable wire that runs inside the torus along the circle
$\qquad (x^2) + y^2 = (a^2), \quad z=0$
I was ...
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How can I let the length of a vector in VectorPlot be represented by it´s norm?
I would like to draw a vector field and let the magnitude of the vectors change over time (t) using the Manipulate function. The direction of the vectors will be static.
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How do I export a movie in AVI or Mov without altering the color and resolution?
Lossless movie export. How do I do that ?
Or how do I export such that the color doesn't change. AVI makes changes the color and mov changes resolution and color.
If you export a still image (in BMP ...
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What is the black-background Mathematica code editor in the movie Arrival?
The heroine in the movie Arrival uses Mathematica to analyze the alien text. In a scene of the movie we can see the heroine is using an editor with black background, the code seems like Mathemaitca ...
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ListPlot is not plotting functions from DSolve, brought by ReplaceAll(/.) command
I have the following simple differential equation
ODE = DSolve[{x'[t] == 1, x[0] == 1}, x[t], t]
and I'd like to visualize how the solution ...
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Producing animation with DSolve
I'm teaching an intro differential equations class and trying to teach my students about bifurcation diagrams. I'd like to give an animation which shows how a solution changes as we change a parameter....
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Most efficient way of creating and exporting animations
I have been creating animations in two different ways: 1)using Animate 2)using Table to create a list of plots at different ...
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Morphing between images
With Mathematica it is possible to continuously morph between images of different faces. But I was wondering if it is also possible to morph between images of any kind?
An example that uses Artbreeder ...
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Slowing down animation to see twisted Dinis
Please help to visualize the given (isometrically twisted Dini) surface with unmoving grid on Box so slowly that at each step the Parametric lines can be seen on the surface. Also the grid position of ...
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Animate scatter plot
I have a data set of the format below
{time,x_pos,y_pos,z_pos}
I would like to do an animation showing the coordinate {x,y,z} changes over time in 3D list point ...
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Making animation based on COVID-19 data [closed]
There is an animation of the growth and spread of COVID-19 cases worldwide at http://www.healthmap.org/covid-19
My question is how do I make the same animation using Mathematica, also analyze the ...
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Camera view along the trajectory
I want to create an animation like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvzZmNW2_70
After googling I have found just below informations about this issue: https://twitter.com/bencbartlett/status/...
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Slider with ticks
I am not happy with the "Labeled" appearance of the slider in Animate or Manipulate. Instead, I wish ticks with multiple of pi under the slider.
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How to transform Appearance value or slider value in Manipulate?
My code is more involved, but my question boils down to this. I have a list of values where each entry represents the x-position of a particle at time $t$. These values are calculated by a finite ...
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How to make C60 football model
I saw a beautiful C60 football model here.
I want to reproduce this animation with MMA, but I don't know how to do it. Can you give me some help?
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A little mouse on the pampas
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Rotating the panel without rotating the controls
In rotating an animate panel is there a way to keep the control buttons where they so that they don't rotate? Or are there separate settings for the placement of control buttons?
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Animating 2D cellular automata with the entire grid in sight
In animating a 2D cellular automata like this:
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Jumpy exported animation
When I make an animation of Plot3D using ListAnimate it looks decent. But when I export the same frames with ...
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How to set up different AnimationRates in the same Animate?
I'm trying to create a model of the solar system but I can't set the different revolution speeds of the planets. The not yet complete code that I wrote is this:
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Transparent Background in an image
I'm doing some solar system animations with Mathematica. I'm wondering if it's possible to somehow change the background of the result of a plot function so that whenever I paste it in a movie editor, ...
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Exporting a Manipulate/Animate with sound to create a Video
In the Documentation of Video (under Scope, 4th example) a Manipulation is combined with audio and exported as a file.mp4 video:
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Exported animation loops automatically
I want to export an animation,
anim = Animate[Plot[Sin[x + a], {x, 0, 10}], {a, 0, 5}, AnimationRepetitions -> 1, AnimationDirection -> Forward]
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Dynamic PlotRange in Animate not working properly
I'm trying to do an animation of a graphic showing a ball rolling down a 20 deg. ramp. I've set up a PlotRange that moves as time evolves, so it will follow the ...
