I want to make a movie from plots in MATLAB. How do I do this?

Hi there,

I would like to make a movie from MATLAB plots that are plotted on a figure. (It does not have to be real time - can post process no problem). I would like to know how to:

• Make an animated gif from plots.
• Make an mpeg from plots.

How can I go about doing this? Is there a way? Thanks!

Answer 1

[bym]

you can start here

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/21944-animated-gif/content/Animated_GIF/html/AnimatedGif.html

Answer 2

[Hussein]

clc
clear all
close all
Z = peaks;
surf(Z)
axis tight
set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren','visible','off')
f = getframe;

[im,map] = rgb2ind(f.cdata,256,'nodither');
im(1,1,1,20) = 0;
for k = 1:20
    surf(cos(2*pi*k/20)*Z,Z)
    f = getframe;
    im(:,:,1,k) = rgb2ind(f.cdata,map,'nodither');
end

imwrite(im,map,'DancingPeaks.gif','DelayTime',0,'LoopCount',inf) 
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[Hussein]

Try this

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

See attached demos, especially movie_made_from_plot.m.