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Hi,
Thank you for writing back with your script.
The python graphics libraries that we use in PyFerret write png
files, not gif's. If you do a web search you will find discussions
about converting pngs to gifs using ImageMagick.
(https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/issues/12) Is that an option
for you? If you or anyone tries it, please let us know how it
looks.
I have answered more of your queries, below:
On 11/17/2016 3:17 PM, saurabh rathore
wrote:
Dear All,
first of all
many thanks to all you guys who participate in this
discussion, i am very happy in saying that i made my animation
from gif files and also created multiple gif file in one go.
As russ and sudheer pointed out my mistake of grave accent
whic is not the inverted coma / quote. in this mail i want to
explain the steps that i did make the movie from gif files.
1) first of
all i made a script to develop the plot from required
calculation. this is the usual script that we are making for
our analysis purpose which contain all the analysis step and
beautification steps required for plots. i named this script
as ohc_mov.jnl (as in my case i want to calculate ocean heat
content from 0_700 m so i named it like this, this is the jnl
script. i have analyzed ohc from 2005-2016 annually so the
plot ohc_0_700_001 means 2005 and so on ).
2) in the
above mentioned script after the frame command i made five
comments
i) for making png images
ii) for making multiple gif files
iii) for making multiple png files
iv) for making animation specially from gif files.
in this
ohc_mov.jnl script you will the label/nouser command so i made
it as ohc($stamp) which will automatically put the time step
number on the plot which helps to understand the animation in
time step.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT HERE I AM HAVING A QUESTION TO FERRETERS THAT IF I WANT TO
PUT LABEL IN THE DATE FORMAT (e.g. 15-jan-2005 and so on ) /
ONLY MOTHS FORMAT / ONLY YEAR FORMAT SO WHAT SHOULD I HAVE TO
DO. i mean to say that i want label according to my time
series over the plots. so is it possible ?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can control the precision of the date strings with MODE
CALENDAR. The default is
yes? show mode calendar
yes? use monthly_navy_winds
yes? shade/l=3 uwnd ! the label is dd-MMM-yyyy mm:ss
yes? set mode calendar:months
yes? shade/l=3 uwnd ! the label is MMM-yyyy
However the time label is not drawn if you have used /NOLABEL . To
turn it back on, do not use /UNLABEL, but instead get rid of most of
the other labels in your script, using "go unlabel". First, also
turn off the labels in the upper left with "cancel mode logo", and
then see the section on 'removing moveable labels:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/documentation/users-guide/customizing-plots/LABELS#_VPID_236
You can set the time-label precision that you want, and remove all
of the automatic labels that you don't want, leving the time label.
3) please
make sure that for making animation from gif files you should
have installed a software gifsicle. from a simple command in
the linux prompt
sudo
apt-get install gifsicle
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
APART FROM THIS I AM A LITTLE QUERY THAT WHAT DOES IT MEANS
`LI,ZW=3`. WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF THIS. ACCORDING TO MY
UNDERSTANDING THIS IS THE PLOT NUMBER LIKE 001, 002 AND SO ON
IF WE MADE IT ZW=4 THEN THIS WILL BE 0001, 0002 ANS SO ON
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, `LI,ZW=3` adds 0's to pad out the number if it is shorter than
3 digits. For file naming, this is nice so the files are in the
correct order in a directory listing:
file001.gif, file002.gif, ..., file010.gif instead of file1.gif,
file2.gif, ..., file10.gif
WILL THIS
GIF ANIMATION THAT IS CREATED ANIM.GIF CAN WE RUN ON WINDOWS
ALSO IF NOT THEN HOW TO MAKE IT DOES WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE
EXTENSION FROM .GIF TO SOMETHING ELSE ?
please reply
to my above queries.
but guys
please remember the grave accent this have to use instead of
quotes which is present above the TAB key. and one more
thing that i faced is that pyferret is not creating gif
files so for this kind of work you have to use ferret
instead of pyferret.
i hope we
can make thousands of plot in one go for the peoples working
on climatic scale ( decadal or multidecadal scales ) and use
those to make animation.
please find
the attached script of my animation with all commands. once
again thank you all for your supports.
happy to
work with ferret and its team.
regards,
saurabh
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