A great answer for intranets and PowerPoint presentations! Thanks Daan... You can assemble these on the fly with ImageMagick, but I've found it takes two passes. One to make the gif, and a second to adjust the frame rate. The whole movie assembly process can then be reduced to a single PyMOL script. Awesome!
But be warned: animated-GIFs are grossly inefficient for molecular animations in internet web pages. They very rapidly exceed a reasonable size even when you cut down on the number of colors. In contrast, JPEG's animated with client-side Javascript can give you at least 5X the number of frames in the same space, but they're not self-contained. -- mailto:war...@sunesis.com Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. > From: Daan van Aalten [mailto:d...@davapc1.bioch.dundee.ac.uk] > Yes: use animated GIF! > > Very simple to make and you can stick it into your webpages > without any > horrible platform-specific plugins - it'll just start running straight > away. They also work in PowerPoint (if you really insist on using that > program). > You can make them with the ImageMagick package, with The Gimp and also > with a tiny C program called gifmerge which you can located through a > Google search. For some examples, see my homepage, under > "Presentations". > Needless to say I'll be using PyMOL for all these in the > future, rather > than molscript! > > cheers >
