Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web
Animations
Animations: MPEG Format
Features:
- Requires an external viewer
- No sound (MPEG-2 allows sound, but there are not many players out there)
- Offers balance between size/resolution
- Players are available for most platforms
- Many people have players installed
Players:
- Sparkle (download for Macintosh)
- MpegPlay (Windows)
(requires Win32s,
and the link seems broken,
so you'll have to check the search engines for this one)
- mpeg_play (Unix)
- Math2HTML (Unix-based Mathematica to HTML converter)
- img2mpeg (link goes to man-page of a tool written for use at the Geometry Center)
Encoders:
- mpeg_encode (Unix)
- Your suggestions for Mac or PC encoding tools can be inserted here...
Resources:
Next: QuickTime
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Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web.
Copyright © 1997 by
Carol Scheftic.
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The Geometry Center
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