[R] animated grid graphics

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 22/07/2009 7:49 AM, Jim Lemon wrote:
> Allan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On 21/07/09 14:00, Paul Hiemstra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Drawing grid graphics always takes long, I would write the images to 
>>> png's and make the animation. If you use Linux I can suggest some 
>>> nice tools to do this. 
> Hi Allan,
> I often have to do this for presentations. As above, I write the images 
> to PNG format, then convert to GIF format, then animate with whirlgif. 
> There are other tools to do this, but it is very convenient for 
> HTML-based presentations, which can be placed on the Web or a local network.

ImageMagick is another tool that can produce animated gifs.  I believe 
it can also act as a front-end to produce mpgs if you have the right 
support tools, but I don't.

For the ImageMagick syntax for animated gifs, take a look at ?movie3d in 
rgl.

Duncan Murdoch