Animation Question

From: Jeff Jonas (ssjaj@XXXXXX)
Date: Sat Mar 06 1999 - 17:12:25 MST


Mary,
 

   I am Jeffrey Jonas, Sr. Analyst at NASA/GISS (on the Columbia
   University campus). We've spoken once or twice over the years,
   and exchanged E-mail a few times too.
 
   My primary job is high performance computing (which now means
   parallelization), but I've always been generating alot of graphics
   along the way. Over the last 6 years or so, most of my graphics
   work has been with NCAR Graphics (the low level routines).
 
   Where I could use some advice.
   I want to return to my earlier work with animation and video
   generation, but this time I'm considering using NCAR Graphics to
   generate the individual frames. My early work along these lines
   entailed using GL, but I've been very happy with the NCAR-G
   quality, so I'd like to explore using NCAR-G for this. However
   with all the options that are available today, it's hard to know
   where to start. I'm thinking that hopefully I could kill 2 birds
   with 1 stone if I plan this carefully (the 2 birds being animation
   on UNIX workstations and VHS-video generation). I work on an SGI
   O2 workstation, and as I mentioned earlier, have been using NCAR-G
   for quite a while.
 
   In poking around your web-site I found references to ...
            
                        mpeg_play and mpeg_create
 
   are these software packages that I could use for this work ??
   Or am I way off-base on this ??
 
   Any feedback would be appreciated, thanx !!!
 
 
   Jeffrey Jonas
 
   NASA / Goddard Institute for Space Studies
   at Columbia University
 
   (212) 568-5532
   jjonas@giss.nasa.gov



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