Reel Support

[tawheeler]

Reel.jl lets you string frames together into videos (or gifs, etc.) I figured out how to use it with PGFPlots, but it requires setting (a very small number of) things to get it to work:

using PGFPlots
using Reel
Reel.set_output_type("gif") // I use this - may not strictly be required
Reel.extension(m::MIME"image/svg+xml") = "svg"

frames = Frames(MIME("image/svg+xml"), fps=10)
for frame in 1:10

    t = rad2deg(linspace(0,5pi,60))
    x = sind(t)
    y = cosd(t)
    z = 2t/(5pi)
    p = Plots.Linear3(x, y, z, mark="none")
    view=@sprintf("{%f}{30}", rad2deg(frame*0.1))

    ax = Axis(p, view=view, xlabel="x", ylabel="y", zlabel="z")

    push!(frames, ax)
end 
frames

Would we like to support this directly? Should we just add an example to the docs without supporting it directly?

[mykelk]

I would love for this to be supported directly! Lots of people want animated plots! It would be nice to make the interface for doing this really slick.

[tawheeler]

So it looks like we only need:

1. to include Reel
2. add Reel.extension(m::MIME"image/svg+xml") = "svg"
3. add some method for getting a Frames object with the desired MIME.
4. maybe reexport Reel
5. document some examples

The rest is handled by Reel.

[tawheeler]

Would like to pull this in, but Reel hasn't issued a new tag in ages.

[tawheeler]

I asked to be made a collaborator on https://github.com/shashi/Reel.jl/issues/11.

[tawheeler]

See 1263193

[juliohm]

I would say that better than Reel.jl is the gif interface of Plots.jl: https://juliaplots.github.io/ Scroll down a little to see the first example with the Lorenz Attractor.

More documentation is available here.