Ack! I found this thread while looking for progress on 3D animation, and didn't notice that it's *two years old*. Anyway, I am indeed thinking of working on this.
On Saturday, April 7, 2012 4:41:43 PM UTC-4, Niles wrote: > > I've been thinking about working on basic 3D animations for Sage; I > haven't yet found an open ticket either. On AskSage, I gave an example > showing how to hack the current animation functionality to animate 3D plots: > > > http://ask.sagemath.org/question/1275/interact-3d-plotpolyhedron?answer=1999#1999 > > The idea is to make a dummy animation, with the same number of frames that > you want, and then *replace* the dummy animation frames with the ones you > want to use. When you call ".show()", your dummy animation object will > then work out the necessary command for convert and produce a gif animation > for you. > > Marshall: Perhaps you and I (and other interested parties) should discuss > how to best implement 3D animations either on sage-devel or on the > appropriate ticket. My thinking has been that "animate()" should work for > any iterator of objects which can save to an image format. Currently > "animate(w)" tries to call "plot()" on the items in w, and I was thinking > of just replacing this with a try/except block that would call something > like "save(tmp_%08d.png)" instead, and fall back on plot if that fails. > Maybe you have more developed ideas though? > > -Niles > > > On Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:14:06 AM UTC-4, Marshall Hampton wrote: >> >> I just noticed that saving 3d objects to a file has finally been >> fixed: http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/2872 >> That means we are one step closer to handling 3d animations. I can't >> find a trac ticket that explicitly targets that but maybe I'm just >> missing it. >> >> -M. Hampton >> >> On May 6, 7:10 am, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > If you search this group for "animate" or "animation" you can see a >> > lot of other responses. One approach is to using ffmpeg to make a >> > movie out of a sequence of frames you save somewhere (e.g. the DATA >> > directory). Another is to use Jmol, but that requires learning a bit >> > more about Jmol since the functionality isn't wrapped in Sage well >> > yet. There has also been some recent progress in including the Theora >> > codec in Sage, which can be used with html5 (seehttp:// >> trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7298). Eventually the >> > animate command should be able to use that last option for 3d objects >> > but I'm not sure how long that's going to take. >> > >> > -M. Hampton >> > >> > On May 6, 5:34 am, isurug <isurugod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > > Hello there, >> > > First of all, a very big thank you for this piece of gold: sagemath. >> > > Im loving it! >> > > I could get it to do all i wanted so far without much less fuss! I >> > > have now tried to make an animation or movie with it of some 3d plot >> i >> > > have. I want to capture the changes occur in the plot with one >> > > variable. I used animate() but it failed. I'd really appreciate if >> > > anyone can shine some light regarding how this is possible in >> > > Sagemath? >> > >> > > Thank you, >> > > Isuru >> > >> > > -- >> > > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > > For more options, visit this group athttp:// >> groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> > >> > -- >> > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group athttp:// >> groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> > URL:http://www.sagemath.org >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support >> URL: http://www.sagemath.org >> > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
