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# Animate

Create an animation

Helper class for creating animations. Saves snapshots of a figture as a folder of individual PNG format frames numbered 0000.png, 0001.png and so on.

## Example

    anim = Animate('movie');

    for i=1:100

    plot(...);
    anim.add();

    end

To convert the image files to a movie you could use a tool like ffmpeg

    % ffmpeg -r 10 -i movie/*.png out.mp4

# Animate.Animate

Create an animation class

a = ANIMATE(name, options) initializes an animation, and creates a folder called name to hold the individual frames.

## Options

'resolution', R | Set the resolution of the saved image to R pixels per

inch.

# Animate.add

Adds current plot to the animation

A.ADD() adds the current figure in PNG format to the animation folder with a unique sequential filename.

A.ADD(fig) as above but captures the figure fig.

## See also

print

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