Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web
Animations

Animation: Generating Frames

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Before you can make a movie, you will need to be able to generate the still frames that will be put together to make the animation. How you do this will depend on what you are depicting in your movie. You may be able to draw the frames by hand using a paint or draw program, but more likely you will use a piece of mathematical software like Mathematica or Maple to generate the frames for your movie.

• Mathematica / Maple
• GIF / TIFF / EPS Files
• Screen Captures

• Moving images to and from the Mac

If you have a Unix system, and the time, space, and interest to load another software tool, then you may well want to consider one of the major products from the Geometry Center:

• Geomview / StageManager

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Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Scheftic. All rights reserved. (This section was originally copyrighted in 1996 by The Geometry Center and is re-used here with permission.) Please send comments on this page, or requests for permission to re-use material from this page, to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu

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Page established 1-Jun-97; last updated Thursday, 24-Jul-1997 00:41:50 CDT.

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