looping a line plot

[Charles Seman]

Sara,

Check out the "Example script" on page 2:
http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/reference_card_scl.pdf

I hope this helps,
Chuck

Rauscher Sara A wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> Thanks, but I know how to make an animation in grads - I have copied an
> example I have used successfully below if anyone else needs such a
> script or example. What I need to do is to animate a XY plot, not a 2-D
> or shaded contour plot - how do I set the dimensions to do this? Is this
> possible?
> sara
>
>
> ti = 1
> while (ti < 4)
>     'c'
>     'set t ' ti
>     'set gxout shaded'
> *     Force contour levels to stay fixed in every frame.
>     'set clevs 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110'
>     'set ccols 9 14  4 11  5 13  3 10  7 12 8 2 1 '
>     'd precip'
>     'run cbar.gs'
>     'printim frame'ti'.png'
>     ti = ti + 1
> endwhile
>
> (Unix:) convert -delay 30 frame1.png frame2.png frame3.png out.gif
>
>
>
> Ricardo Hallak wrote:
>
>> Hi Sara,
>>
>> an animation is make up of several individual figures. First, you have to
>> build the individual figures with GrADS (say, saving them in .gif or .jpg
>> formats). Second, the animation should be properly handled with an extra
>> program, any animation wizard program. You can use some freeware or
>> shareware program that will animate your sequence of figures and save it in
>> some animation format supported by Powerpoint (say, .avi).
>>
>> You can start looking the internet for "gif animation" or something like
>> that.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ricardo
>>
>>
>>
>
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>
> Dr. Sara A. Rauscher
> Earth System Physics Section
> The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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>

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