[ REQ 5960]: creating MPEGs with geomview?

[gbierner at rice.edu]

Hi,

I have written a program that will simulate the movement of a truss
when some of its nodes are displaced.  It is written as a geomview
module and sends, at each time step, a picture of the truss to geomview.
This gets my a nice animation.

But I'd like to put an MPEG or Quicktime movie of this animation on the
web.  Is there any way that I can do this?  Perhaps, at each iteration,
I can have geomview save its picture, and then I can use another program
to convert all of these pictures into an MPEG.  But geomview seems to
only save to TIFF.  But I could always get a program to convert from
TIFF to something else and then convert to MPEG.

So it seems that I could probably do this, but it would be a pain.  Is
there by any chance a standard method of doing this (that isn't too
painful?)

Thanks,
Gann

P.S. I think it's a travesty that NSF isn't renewing.  I've sent them
mail already.

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