comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question [message #32665 is a reply to message #32571]

Wed, 23 October 2002 06:59

K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000

Senior Member

> I have a similar situation, I need to process images and make
> animations no matter who's logged in. I've written all my code so
> that it doesn't need to connect to the X server. My entire project
> is defeated, however, by a piece of SGI software, dmconvert, which I
> use to transform a series of images into a quicktime movie. That
> code makes a connection to the X server and I can't do without that
> software. So I leave myself logged in so that my account can always
> connect to the X server.

Not surprisingly, if you have access to a Mac, there is a variety of
software that will convert images into QT movies. One of the best is
the professional-quality shareware program GraphicConverter. Write the
images from IDL in your favorite format (GIF/JPEG/PNG/raw). I use raw
or PNG. Convert the images to QT movies using the "graphics" or
"animation" codecs. Those QT codecs can be set to do lossless
compression; they are fast and simple; and they compress most scientific
graphics well (i.e., line art, not photographs).

Of course, you need a raster device (e.g., X or Z) to create the
original images in IDL.

Regards, Ken Bowman

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: William Daffer on Tue, 22 October 2002 17:13
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: Mostafa El-Kady on Tue, 22 October 2002 13:52
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: R.Bauer on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:51
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: James Kuyper on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:44
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: Rick Towler on Tue, 22 October 2002 12:02
		Re: WINDOW, /PIXMAP Question By: K. Bowman on Wed, 23 October 2002 06:59

Previous Topic:	Re: IDLgrVolume RENDER_STEP does not scale
Next Topic:	Re: Finding the mean of a set of images

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Fri Oct 10 06:23:48 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.32287 seconds