Re: Another thread on Oplot...and handle graphics.

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 08:43:34AM +0000, Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:
> 
> One particular usage of the SoOffscreenRenderer is to make it render 
> frames to be used for the construction of movies. The general technique 
> for doing this is to iterate over the following actions:
> 
>    * move camera to correct position for frame
>    * update the |realTime| global field (see explanation below)
>    * invoke the SoOffscreenRenderer
>    * dump rendered scene to file
> 
> ..then you use some external tool or library to construct the movie 
> file, for instance in MPEG format, from the set of files dumped to disk 
> from the iterative process above.

It is not even necessary to use an external tool.  The FFMpeg wrapping
class at

http://www.dsp.sun.ac.za/~stefan

allows you to generate movies from within Octave.

Regards
Stéfan