R help - Oct 2003 - Visualising Moving Vectors

I am wanting to plot a series of wind vectors onto a contoured area map
for a series of weather stations (eg arrows showing wind speed/direction
for a particular time snapshot), can someone please advise me how best to
approach this?

My desired end point is to be able to link a time series of such data
together so that I will in effect have a "movie" displaying the
evolution
of these wind vectors over time - can anyone suggest how this can be
achieved? I believe that there is a function within Image Magick whereby I
might be able to acheive this?

Thanks in advance!

> My desired end point is to be able to link a time series of such data
> together so that I will in effect have a "movie" displaying 
> the evolution
> of these wind vectors over time - can anyone suggest how this can be
> achieved? I believe that there is a function within Image 
> Magick whereby I
> might be able to acheive this?
Animated gif is one option to assemble pictures to a "movie". Another
way, if you would like to go the TeX-PDF-way, would be texpower 
(texpower.sourceforge.net). 

Cheers 


Johannes

On 28-Oct-03 Laura Quinn wrote:
> I am wanting to plot a series of wind vectors onto a contoured area map
> for a series of weather stations (eg arrows showing wind
> speed/direction for a particular time snapshot), can someone please
> advise me how best to approach this?
> 
> My desired end point is to be able to link a time series of such data
> together so that I will in effect have a "movie" displaying the
> evolution of these wind vectors over time - can anyone suggest how
> this can be achieved? I believe that there is a function within Image
> Magick whereby I might be able to acheive this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
ImageMagick (which is a suite of several stand-alone programs) includes
the program 'animate' which does just this. If you have your sequence
of files in alphabetical sort order (e.g. view001.png, view002.png, ...)
then

  animate view*.png

will cycle through them on order (and rather briskly; however, you
can use the "-delay" option to choose your frame speed). There's
also a facility to merge a sequence of image files into a single
file, an "animated GIF", which can be "played" on any
standard
Web Browser, only I don't recall the details.

Hoping this helps,
Ted.


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