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How to build a bvh (a motion capture file format) player in Mathematica?
TL;DR: A package (Mathematica v10) can be found at the very bottom of this post.
UPDATES
6: Tiny update: Import can now use the ".bvh" extension to determine the ...
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How to make this beautiful animation
I'd like to expand on Quantum_Oli's answer to give an intuitive explanation for what's happening, because there's a neat geometric interpretation. At one point in the animation it looks like there is ...
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Animation of double pendulum
After correcting the syntax errors in the original code, the actual question can be addressed:
How to display the four variables x1[t]...y2[t] as an animation in a ...
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Random polyhedra walk
Usage
Just use this function with any polyhedron in in form:
GraphicsComplex[pts_, Polygon[vertices_, ___]].
When I find time and motivation maybe I will add ...
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Face Morphing with Mathematica
MMA version: 12.0
I'll use the following images, found on the internet under open licence (if you know how to share the images themselves, please let me know). I originally had chosen two more but ...
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May the Fourth be with you
This is not the full answer but I've solved most of the problems. The hardest one, with sound, remains.
Embedded version without music
bobthechemist's points
Quality is not a problem anymore since ...
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How can I better mimic the graphics at earth.nullschool.net?
I think you might be better off creating Graphics directly instead of using the StreamPlot style options. In this example I use ...
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Better way to visualize cylinder puzzle solution
Since you want the animation to have explanatory content, I thought it might be best to incorporate the explanatory 2D diagram into the 3D scene.
So I imagine the 2D plot as a "sticker" that can be ...
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Bouncy Bubbles animation
This is my port of the Processing code that you referenced. It doesn't try to optimize, so I didn't try it either, for example I didn't use Nearest to find ...
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How should I reproduce this colorful swirling gif?
Embedded cdf with music version. code at the bottom
For full period, change max t to 200, my gif is cut in half because for ...
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Solving and Animating Three Body Problem
Generally always check Demonstrations site for good code. I cannot not mention an excellent "classic" of planar three body problem by Stephen Wolfram and Michael Trott. Code is short and I verified it ...
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Create GIF looping animation
As partly mentioned in this: Add delay to the final frame of a GIF? we can use "AnimationRepetitions" -> ∞ to loop a GIF indefinitely:
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Animating transition between all graph representations obtained from curated data
The following is a little involved, but it calculates the "minimum displacement" evolution by choosing the least total displacement alternatives from the permutations generated by the "...
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How to plot a bicycle with square wheels
This question is too interesting to resist, so I'll talk about how to analyze the problem.
Take a look at sketch above. It describes an arbitrary moment during the rolling. From the kinematics view, $...
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Bouncy Bubbles animation
data generates n balls, here: 10
Note that it might be wise to make the box larger, if ...
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What has changed in Mathematica since version 2 so that Do no longer can be used to make animations?
There was a major overhaul of graphics in 2007 for V6, one aspect of which was that Mathematica switched from displaying graphics as a side-effect, to rendering directly in the notebook.
Since ...
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Animate point going around a triangle
If you interpret your geometric shape as a NURBS of degree 1 (linear), you can proceed with the following, extremely simple code:
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Animate a circle "rolling" along a complicated 3D curve
EDIT
As OP wishes (and as Rahul correctly points out) my original answer puts unit circle in TB plane (my error as labels suggest) and what is desired is TN plane.
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How to write a drag-n-drop reorderable gui?
Here is a very crude first implementation (code at the bottom):
(note that the updated version is called as `dragDropList[Dynamic@l)
Some notes:
The black box serves both as insertion marker and as ...
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How to make this Möbius Torus animation?
Update: I have managed to fix the distortion of the polygons, so now only the glow is missing
Update 2: I have added a hacky "glow" to the polygons by adding partially transparent polygons ...
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Pulsed NMR animation
Here is a simple modification of the original code in the question that seems to do what's desired:
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Dynamic Epicycles
Here is a slight modernization of old code by Stan Wagon for generating epicycles, based on this paper by Frank Farris:
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How to add a fading trail effect in Animate?
ColorFunction and Epilog were around in version 7. However, ColorFunction did get an update ...
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For a better animation of the solution from NDSolve
To prevent shaking, try to add ImagePadding and for the other issue, you can fix the vertical plot range.
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Pulsed NMR animation
Below is an animation that tips a proton precessing in the presence of a static B0 magnetic field from the z direction into the x-y plane with a 90 degree ...
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