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Author: Fabio Acero & Michael Gehmeyr Date: 08/2004

Reads in four solar data sets for a specific Carrington rotation number and uses the Sequencer to drive the Rotation module to create an animation.

Illustrates the Save Image option in order to generate an animated sequence and replaying it with the ImageMagick display. The Main page shows how to use the Image module to save the animation in miff format: Execute Once (CTRL-E) pops up the image; on the image menubar click on File -> Save Image (or CTRL-A); in the Save Image window the format MIFF and the output file name and directory designation are already selected; click on the Continuous Saving button and store the settings by depressing Apply. Then double-click on the Sequencer and press the play button to see the frame rotating about the z-axis. Stop the animation after about 20 frames; it is now saved in the directory images/movies/ under the file name SolarMovie.miff.

You can replay the animation in two different ways. Either type display ../images/movies/SolarMovie.miff in a open terminal which brings up a new window with the first frame, and depress the space bar with the cursor being in that window to step though the frames. Or drag a System module below the two String modules and connect the first String with the input of System and Execute Once; again depress the space bar while the cursor is in the new window to step though the frames.