[Tutor] HELP: Creating animation from multiple plots

[Amit Saha]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Amit Saha <amitsaha.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sayan,
>
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Sayan Chatterjee
> <sayanchatterjee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am a newbie to Python but have a fair know how of other languages i.e C
>> etc.
>>
>> I want to run an astrophysical simulation in Python. All I have to do it to
>> generate a set of 'plots' depending on a varying parameter and then stitch
>> them up.
>>
>> 1) Is it possible to automatically generate different data files( say in the
>> orders of 1000) with different names depending on a parameter?
>
> It certainly is. Are you talking about the file names being
> file_1001.txt, file_1002.txt and so on? If yes, let's say  your
> parameter values are stored in param. Then something like this would
> do the trick:
>
> param_values = [1000,1001, 1005, 2001]
>
> for param in param_values:
>     fname = 'file_' + str(param)
>
>
>    # write to file fname
>    #
>    #
>
>
> Sorry if its different from what you are looking for. But yes, its
> certainly possible.
>
>
>>
>> 2) Is it possible to plot the data sets right from Python itself and save
>> the plots in different jpeg files to stitched upon later on.
>
> It is possible to generate plots and save each as JPEGs. [1].
>
> What do you mean by stitching together?

You probably meant creating an animation from them. Yes,  it is
certainly possible. I will try to find a link which makes it really
easy to create an animation out of a bunch of images. Which operating
system are you on?

-Amit.



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