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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Update Random Each Repetition of Animate

I found a solution that's not what I wanted but it will suffice Thanks - Larry ...
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Animating a wave function

I have a wave equation which is generated from the command FourierSeries. The generation of the time-component $FD[t]$ is given by: ...
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Preventing scale difference between `ListAnimate` and `Export`

So I have the following animation which looks fine on screen: ...
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Is there a way to create very high aspect ratio images from movies?

I am trying to process images of very high aspect ratio defects (on the order of 100:1) with Mathematica (perhaps using movies)? I am trying to analyze long, thin, defects in coated film. If I take ...
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plotting sequence of points

I am new to Mathematica, and I am trying to plot a sequence of 2D points so that the resulting video shows 1, then 2, then 3, ... points on the screen. Here is a simple minded version of what I am ...
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Fixing dashed line shake in ParametricPlot

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How do you animate a parametric plot without specifying the range?

I'm trying animate a parametric plot without having to specify the range of the function variables, which will be done later on in a bigger animation. Here's my code: ...
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Trouble Mapping a Geometric Transformations over a List of different types of Graphics Objects

I am working on some code that allows me to auto-rotate graphics (including ParmetricPlot3D and Plot3D graphics) objects while preserving mouse dragging in a smooth fashion. It works great. The code ...
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Animate $f(x)$ revolving aroung $Y$ axis

I'm asking if there is a way to animate a function $f(x)$ (plotted in a range $(a, b)$ with $a > 0$ and $b > 0$), making it to revolve around the $Y$ axis and showing the solid of revolution ...
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Track chord movement

The point $P$ on the circle and the point $F$ inside the circle, perpendicular bisector of line $PF$ intersects the circle at two points $A, B$, the envelope of $AB$ is an ellipse. I use the following ...
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Animation of a ball rolling up and down a parabola

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Why can't Animate function have nested parameters?

Version: 12.1.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) Minimal example: ...
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Showing each component of velocity in a helix

In this animation, I want to show each component of velocity (V_x, V_y and V_z) with arrows ...
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Add a button in Manipulate to execute a bookmark animation?

I am writing a Manipulate with a set of bookmark animations. Below is a simple toy example. However, rather than having to select the "+" icon and select the "Animate bookmarks" ...
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How to embed an animation in the following into .pdf using latex?

How to embed an animation in the following to .pdf file using latex? Is it possible to add the buttons for j and k such as in ...
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Help me solve an animated plotting issue?

I am trying to animate the y axis moving along the x axis while keeping it the same height the entire time. This works after a certain point, but the first couple of seconds the y axis scale gets ...
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GIF animation changing background unexpectedly

I have the following animation that I wish to export as GIF ...
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Fullscreen "real-time" animation without margins

Suppose you have a function mapping a discrete input, e.g., ranging from 1 to $n$, to an image. Each image resulting from a sequence of such inputs should be displayed in fullscreen one after the ...
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Using WhenEvent to stop N objects at a boundary

I am attempting to implement an event into my simulation which makes any moving particle in an electric field completely stop at the instant they pass some specified threshold. I was trying to utilize ...
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How to fix "Coordinate{\$CellContext`x1, \$CellContext`y1, \$CellContext`z1} should be a triple of numbers, or a Scaled form

I have a program which should show the motion of N particles in an electric field as a function of time and position within the field. I am running into the aforementioned error (listed in title) when ...
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Animating a Sphere Eversion (Turning a sphere inside out)

I'm interested in animating a sphere eversion like the one shown in the following gif. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-To1eUtuU Normally, I would offer my own code as a ...
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Adding timeline to ListAnimate

I want to add time in the ListAnimate so that after I exporting the video I can see the graph changes by time. For example I have a graph that is changes by time, ...
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Is there any alternative for Manipulate or Animate?

I have a project to animate heat equation in 3D. I have the following problem $$u_t=u_{xx},\qquad 0\leq x\leq 1 \land t>0$$ $$u(0,t)=u(1,t)=0$$ $$u(x,0)=\begin{cases} 2x, & 0\leq x<\frac{1}{...
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High Quality animation with Export?

This is my second question here. Recently I've been trying to compile a video simulation of wave propagation via ComplexPlot[] with ...
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Animate a point that follows a function inside a plot

I'm trying to create a plot that shows an animation of a point moving along a function. The idea behind this is that a I want the point to follow the function until the discontinuity point. For every ...
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The jumping problem when rolling a Reuleaux triangle

I'm making an animation of a Reuleaux triangle rolling on a straight line like this The animation generated by my code is not continuous. Is there a simple way to eliminate jumping? ...
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Animated contour plots inside multiple shapes

I am new to Mathematica and have recently been trying to investigate solar weather on power grids. I have managed to plot the power grid being studied where the vertices are substations and would like ...
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create an animation of a string

I'm trying to create an animation of motion of a physical string, it should demonstrate a "jumping rope", but I don't know what function to use, I've tried parametric plot and vector plot. I ...
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Making animation with mathematica for sphere [closed]

How to make animation in mathematica for 3D sphere which randomly its radius increase and decreases? Thanks
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Error animating a 3d parametric plot of a sum

I am trying to animate a sum together with a circle (specifically the vector field $(r \sin \theta , r \cos \theta, u(r,t))$ using Animate and ...
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Sphere animation

I need to make an animation to visualize spherical coordinates. So,what I need is, when I increase r, it traces a radius r. Just to make it easier, it traces in z-axis. Then, when we increase angle ...
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Smooth Interpolation Between Curves

I'm interested in finding a way to smoothly interpolated between graphics curves (and possibly shapes as well). My current solution is not very elegant ...
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Scroll Through Layers of ListLinePlot3D

I like the default functionality of ListLinePlot3D's layering of 2-d data plots, as seen below with 4 layers. ...
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Inverse of an Animation

I was thinking, it's possible to plot inverse an animation?? ...
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Hemisphere volume plot

I am trying to show an animation of the hemisphere volume. I tried to start with some radius and rotate it, to get an area of a circle. Then, I will stack up the circle in z-axis to make a hemisphere. ...
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Problems with animation

I am trying to make a random walk simulation with Animate, but somehow it doesn't produce the animation I want. ...
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How to visualize an externally calculated FEM solution

I am trying to make animations of results of a FEM solver from an external model. Basically, I am pre- and post-processing in MMA. As a simple example, let's say I have a mesh such as: ...
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How to make a initial condition of a wave equation as a gaussian wave packet travelling to the right?

I am trying to animate the solution of a wave equation with initial condition being a gaussian wave packet travelling the the right. I know that the mathematical equation is something like $e^{\frac{-(...
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Animating Particle Motion Using Parametric Plot and Animate

I am attempting to animate my parametric plot and add a particle to move on the line but I am having difficulties. Here is my graph for the trajectory: ...
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How to force Animate to work properly?

I would like to animate a simple clip where the points appear at a plot ...
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how to make two dots moving along two curves?

I got this code from a previous thread and then modified it a bit. ...
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ListAnimate problem

Imagine I want to use ListAnimate on the follow list ...
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Can I get the given plot without calculating the roots numerically? Is it possible to use Manipulate/Animate to get a continuous line of the points?

I have two functions $F(x,y)$ and $G(x,y)$ for $0<x\leq3$ and $-1\leq y \leq1$. Given a specific value of $y$, I want to find those values of $x$ for which we have $F=0$ and $G\neq \pm 1$. For ...
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Code review of my animation of Ellipsoid method

Feel free to suggest improvements (code-review) to my two functions (calculation and animation). They were made to visualize the workings of the Ellipsoid method in two dimensions. For example, see ...
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How to get a gif from the Clock result?

I get a Clock graphics like Dynamic@Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, Clock[6]}, PlotRange -> {{0, 6}, {-1, 1}}] But how to export a <...
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Why the animation of a function gives different results from the integral?

My function is: A1[B_, x_, t_] := (AiryAi[B*(x - (B^3*t^2)/4)])^2 (B is a constant) and if I use "Manipulate" : ...
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How put a legend in an animation?

I wrote the following code for create an animation with legend: however I was not able to put the LineLegend command into the command Animate and so it seems that this is the reason for which I can't ...
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Bug with animation rate

I tried to introduce an decay to the rotation of an object in mathematica by tying the animation rate to the degree of rotation as in the picture below and it goes quite smoothly until it reaches a ...
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Represent the motion of a particle

I am trying to represent the motion of a particle along a given trajectory. So I defined the following functions ...
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Error when exporting

Imagine I have a list of plots, call it frames, and I rasterize them in order to have a smoother exported video, like so ...
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