controling Looping

[eliav schmulewitz]

Hi
another thing you can do is use 'gifsicle', a very useful program that can
make animation from gif files
though this can make the script very long
if you want i can give you an example of a script
eliav

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Eric Altshuler <ela at cola.iges.org> wrote:

> Kim WonMoo's method sets up a script loop that does nothing except use CPU
> cycles to cause a delay between frames in the animation. This is a brute
> force method that may result in drastically different delay lengths
> depending on machine speed and CPU usage by other processes at any given
> time. A better way to introduce a delay between frames is to use double
> buffer mode and the Unix 'sleep' command, e.g.
>
> 'set dbuff on'
> it=1
> while (it<=20)
> 'set t 'it
> 'd slp'
> 'swap'
> '!sleep 1'
> it=it+1
> endwhile
>
> The only problem here is that the minimum sleep time is 1 second, which is
> rather long for an animation. On some Linux machines there is a 'usleep'
> command that allows the user to specify the delay time in microseconds, e.g.
>
> '!usleep 500000'
>
> to sleep for 0.5 second. If your system has the usleep command, use it
> instead of sleep so you can specify a delay of less than 1 second. Using
> double buffer mode along with the sleep or usleep command produces a nice
> animation without having to use the mouse or keyboard to advance the frames.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eric L. Altshuler
> Assistant Research Scientist
> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705-3106
> USA
>
> E-mail: ela at cola.iges.org
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yan Libin" <zjuyanlibin at 163.COM>
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:02:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: Re: controling Looping
>
> 
> idummy??? what is this variable?
>
>
> 2009-09-22
>
> Yan Libin
>
> 发件人： Kim WonMoo
> 发送时间： 2009-09-22 16:48:49
> 收件人： GRADSUSR
> æ �送：
> 主题： Re: controling Looping
>
>
> Or, just insert dummy loop inside,
>
> it=1
> while (it<=20)
> 'set t 'it
> 'd slp'
> idummy=1
> while (idummy<=100000)
> idummy=idummy+1
> endwhile
> it=it+1
> endwhile
>
> to avoid keep pressing key-board.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Kim,WonMoo
>
>
>
>
> From: Yan Libin
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 5:40 PM
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Subject: Re: controling Looping
>
>
> it=1
> while(it<=20)
> set t 'it'
> d slp
> pull down
> c
> endwhile
>
>
> 2009-09-22
>
> Yan Libin
>
> 发件人： hiren dave
> 发送时间： 2009-09-22 16:29:43
> 收件人： GRADSUSR
> æ �送：
> 主题： controling Looping
>
>
>        Dear,
> Friends
>
> I have netCDf file containing the daily average value of a parameter. I am
> using following script to view the plots of 5 to 10 days in looping. But the
> speed of looping is so fast and it is difficult to see any pattern in the
> output. I want to control the speed of this looping. Is there any way?
>
> 'set t 1 20'
> 'd slp'
>
>
> Hiren Dave
> JRF
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