I recommend using ffmpeg for stuff like that, it will do a better job
than animate as long as animate is just using imagemagick.  You need
to save the image files with sequential names.  I can post an example
if you are interested.

-Marshall Hampton

On Feb 17, 2:33 pm, Christopher Olah <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I think you misunderstand. I'm not passing a 3d object to animate (or
> at least, I'm not trying to...). I'm passing a list of images of a 3d
> object.
>
> The problem is that I'm having trouble geting that list. I'm trying to
> use Tachyon to render images, but... It's not working very well.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Robert Bradshaw
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Christopher Olah wrote:
>
> >> Greetings!
>
> >> I've been trying to make animations of Tachyon raytraced 3d plots, so
> >> that people can see a plot from multiple angles without java. (It
> >> could also be used to visualise a forth dimension...) None of my
> >> attempts have worked....
>
> >> The best strategy I've had was:
>
> >> sage: b = parametric_plot3d((u^2, v, u*v), [u, -1, 1], [v, -1, 1],
> >> viewer='tachyon')
> >> sage: animate([b.rotateY( 2*pi*(j/6) ) for j in range(6)])
>
> >> But that didn't work either... I seem to be over my head in the
> >> internal magic of sage. Can someone help me?
>
> > Animate doesn't understand 3d graphics objects. This shouldn't be too hard
> > to fix, is anyone working on that?
>
> > - Robert
>
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