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

[Ole Jacob Hagen]

Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> 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
>
>  
Ok, this feature is included in Coin3D, which is the c++ opengl library 
I am using.
Read more about Coin here: http://coin3d.org
Thanks for the link, Stefan.

Cheers,

Ole J.