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Getting Started with IDL: Animation |
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IDL can help you visualize your data dynamically by using animation. An animation is just a series of still frames shown sequentially. In IDL, a series of frames can be represented by a 3-D array (for example, a 3-D array could hold forty, 300 pixel by 300 pixel images). This chapter shows you how to create an array of images and play them back as an animated sequence.
| Note To simplify obtaining useful results from the examples in this manual, create a bitmap buffer for your graphic windows and to use a maximum of 256 colors by entering the following command at the IDL command prompt: DEVICE, RETAIN=2, DECOMPOSED=0 |
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