Well, I made a search and saw that the code for creating movies between 2 views
was discussed on this list in December 2008 :
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ba9c0bd60812040557y45242054ufe27b46045801a4d%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=jmol-users
The thread was : Letting Jmol make a movie between two views
Paul
Le 4 janv. 2012 à 12:07, Bob Hanson a écrit :
> write frames
>
> Or if you need to you can write a little looping script to do that. Or write
> a "command" yourself. Jmol's function calls can now look like commands
>
> Sent from my stupid iphone
>
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Paul Pillot <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> you can make a movie from separate png files using the package ffmpeg
>> (http://ffmpeg.org/)
>> I created a simple animation from a pov file, rendered in PNG image format
>> from different angles to simulate a rotation. It would be exactly the same
>> principle with png files created by Jmol.
>> Also, it might be useful to know that Bob wrote somewhere (but I can't find
>> where !) in the Jmol documentation a function to write sequential png files
>> in a trajectory (by "splitting" a quaternion in the specified number of
>> frames from what I understood)
>> (I realized that ffmpeg is the package used by the molecular software
>> chimera to create mov files from png in their animation tool.)
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Le 3 janv. 2012 à 03:26, Eric Martz a écrit :
>>
>>> If someone has experience generating true movies from Jmol (movies
>>> that will play in a web browser, or at least will play on both
>>> Windows and Macs without special software) I would appreciate advice.
>>>
>>> I think the idea is to save a series of jpg files from a Jmol script.
>>> The jpg files are the frames of a movie. One then assembles the jpg
>>> files into some sort of movie (mpg?) file. How? What software is
>>> easiest for the assembly, to control the speed of the movie, etc.?
>>>
>>> I have experience using RasMol scripts to save a series of gif files,
>>> and assembling those into a multi-gif "movie" that plays in all web
>>> browsers. As far as I can see, Jmol cannot write gif files.
>>>
>>> I see that Jmol's "write image" command can save several variations
>>> on png image format and ppm format. I don't know if any of those are
>>> advantageous for assembling a movie.
>>>
>>> Thanks, -Eric
>>>
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