Re: [las_users] animation

[Jonathan Callahan <Jonathan.S.Callahan@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

Thanks for pointing this out.  I'm posting to the users group again as 
your previous email bounced.


-- Jon


David Ian Brown wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> I still have the animation code that Maartin DeKoningh developed. I 
> never have sent it on to you
> because it had dependencies on old LAS 5.0 code that I intended to 
> remove, but
> have never had the time to get to. It also had a limitation, not in 
> the animator itself, of course, but of
> the interface, that allowed it to animate properly only over monthly 
> data.
>
> It is running on two sites (with the browser/OS limitations of LAS 5):
> http://dataportal.ucar.edu/arcas and
> http://dataportal.ucar.edu/vemap
>
> You just choose xyt volume as the view and either 'animated GIF' or 
> 'animation (java)' as the product.
> Be sure to choose a monthly dataset. I think it limits the number of 
> frames to a maximum of 10 years' worth.
> It would be nice to get his work out there, but I'm still constrained 
> on time as far as being able to port
> it to the latest LAS interface. Maybe someone else could. I'd be happy 
> to make the code available and
> try to help someone figure it out.
>   -dave
>
> On Jun 29, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Callahan wrote:
>
> > Andrea,
> >
> > We've had a couple of requests for animations and the holdup has 
> > always been no specific source of funding to do it and the fact that 
> > Ferret does not create animations as one of its native output types.  
> > To get animation functionality you could add a custom operation (in 
> > las/server/custom/custom.pl) that would instruct Ferret to spit out a 
> > bunch of .gif images with a sequential naming scheme.  Then you'd 
> > need to invoke another tool (whirlgif?  imagemagic?) to ingest these 
> > and spit out an animation in the desired format.  Once this is 
> > created, LAS will return it to the end user.
> >
> > If you or anyone else has code that can do this we'd love to see it 
> > and include it in our las/contrib/ area.
> >
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> >
> > Andrea Fey wrote:
> >
> > > Hi LAS users.
> > > Is LAS able to animate time sequences? If it's not currently able 
> > > would this feature be added with a method in Ferret.pl per the 
> > > custom operations example? Has anyone already done this?
> > > Thanks.
> > > Andrea