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animate 3d plots?

asked 2010-09-04 10:59:25 +0100

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updated 2011-05-07 00:15:39 +0100

Kelvin Li gravatar image

Is there an animation function for 3d plots? Specifically, I'm looking to animate some plots drawn with Tachyon, but I don't see any animation functions either in the Tachyon documentation or in the 3d base classes documentation. I have seen that there is an animate function for 2d plots, but it says that the input needs to be a "graphics object", and I don't think Tachyon objects are recognized as such. So maybe modifying the 2d animation functions could do what I want, but is there something else already available?

For an example, an animation where the curve changes color from magenta to white would be great:

sage: f = lambda t: (t,t^2,t^3)
sage: t = Tachyon(camera_center=(5,0,4))
sage: t.texture('t')
sage: t.light((-20,-20,40), 0.2, (1,1,1))
sage: t.parametric_plot(f,-5,5,'t',min_depth=6)
sage: t.show()

p.s. If this is already available, I'll volunteer to add information about it to the Tachyon documentation.

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Interesting question. The 2d plots seem to be animated by ImageMagick. For 3d, a different lib (as you mention). Saving a keyframe animation involves dumping the renderbuffer/framebuffer for those times. I will look at this too.

ccanonc gravatar imageccanonc ( 2010-09-04 12:26:54 +0100 )edit

Could an interact do this? (The display/loop part, not the saving part.)

ccanonc gravatar imageccanonc ( 2010-09-04 12:31:48 +0100 )edit

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answered 2010-09-05 00:55:36 +0100

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updated 2010-09-05 12:13:30 +0100

This has been a desired feature for a long time. I use ffmpeg to animate tachyon plots; for some discussion of that see: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/browse_thread/thread/eb00dc7727701879

Because ffmpeg has some patent issues in the US (at least I think it does, I'm not an expert on that sort of thing) it can't be included in Sage. A promising alternative is to animate tachyon-created images in the browser by other means. This is the goal of a trac ticket already:

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7298

Seems totally possible, but nobody has pushed it to completion.

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answered 2010-09-04 12:37:50 +0100

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updated 2010-09-04 12:38:41 +0100

http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact/graphics#Interactive3dplotting

Maybe if interact code could be modified to loop, it would get the desired effect? I haven't used interact.

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mma does looping animations, so this feature/enhancement follows the "can mma do it?" rule; assuming it can't already be done in Sage.

ccanonc gravatar imageccanonc ( 2010-09-04 13:17:46 +0100 )edit

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