Save drawing/TIFF
from
the main window menu a series of TIFF files is written out, one for each
frame of the animation (currently 24 frames which cannot be changed by
the user). These TIFF files can easily be converted to a video file (MPEG)
showing the animation using standard image manipulation tools from the Internet.
One possible MPEG encoder is mpeg_encode
which is available from
mm-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU
via anonymous ftp. This encoder expects its input files either in PPM, PNM,
or YUV format. To convert the TIFF files written by VIEWMOL you can
use the PBMPLUS or NETPBM libraries which have a filter tifftopnm (you
also need pnmflip, since tifftopnm changes the orientation of the picture).
The following shell script will do the conversion (for sh and ksh users)
if the default files from VIEWMOL have be used:
for i in vm_image*.tiff do j=`basename $i tiff`pnm tifftopnm $i | pnmflip -topbottom > $j doneThe resulting PNM files can then be processed by
mpeg_encode
to produce
a MPEG file which can, e. g., be included into a World Wide Web document.