Re: [O] [OT] Generate animations (programmatic)

2012-06-19 Thread adam
Is POV-Ray out of the question? - command-line driven - outputs many graphic types - very programmable - can (be programmed to) read and parse intermediary text/data files - robust - render to animation later with ffmpeg or mencoder - and can import a variety of existing pictures

Re: [O] [OT] Generate animations (programmatic)

2012-06-19 Thread Christopher Witte
Perhaps Asymptote would meet your needs: http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ It is even supported by babel, can output to multiple formats (mpg, gif, SVG, 3D pdf and many others) and is fully programmable (depending on the complexity of your models, you could directly program it in Asymptote, it has

[O] [OT] Generate animations (programmatic)

2012-06-18 Thread Torsten Wagner
Hi, its a bit OT (well maybe there is a babel solution ;) ) I am looking for a way to generate small animations for educational purpose. I know many here did/do/plan to do similar things, thus I would like to ask here. Those animations need to follow some underlying algorithms (I would need a

Re: [O] [OT] Generate animations (programmatic)

2012-06-18 Thread adam
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 12:05 +0900, Torsten Wagner wrote: Hi, its a bit OT (well maybe there is a babel solution ;) ) I am looking for a way to generate small animations for educational purpose. I know many here did/do/plan to do similar things, thus I would like to ask here. Those