I am trying to create an animation in ConTeXt + MetaPost. In particular, I would like to have ConTeXt + MetaPost generate each individual frame of the animation, and then I would like to place each of these graphics on the page in succession. I am looking for a "ConTeXt way" without placing the MetaPost code in a separate source file, running MetaPost, and using \externalfigure. The following MetaPost sample code generate 21 graphics images (numbered .0 to .20), but I have no idea how to have ConTeXt generate these graphics without a manual external MetaPost run and have them included in a way that is consistent with \startuseMPgraphic or similar.
Thanks in advance, Troy Henderson path p,q; p:=fullcircle scaled 72; L:=length p; N:=20; for n=0 upto N: beginfig(n); q:=subpath (0,n/N*L) of p; draw q withcolor red; fill fullcircle scaled 3 shifted point length q of q withcolor blue; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare shifted (-0.5,-0.5) scaled 75; endfig; endfor; end -- Troy Henderson Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Mobile http://www.tlhiv.org ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________