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NAME
    animate - animate a sequence of images

SYNOPSIS
    animate [ options ...] file [ [ options ...] file ...]

DESCRIPTION
    Animate displays a sequence of images on any workstation display run-
    ning an X server. animate first determines the hardware capabilities of
    the workstation. If the number of unique colors in an image is less
    than or equal to the number the workstation can support, the image is
    displayed in an X window. Otherwise the number of colors in the image
    is first reduced to match the color resolution of the workstation
    before it is displayed.

    This means that a continuous-tone 24 bits-per-pixel image can display
    on a 8 bit pseudo-color device or monochrome device. In most instances
    the reduced color image closely resembles the original. Alternatively,
    a monochrome or pseudo-color image sequence can display on a continu-
    ous-tone 24 bits-per-pixel device.

    To help prevent color flashing on X server visuals that have colormaps,
    animate creates a single colormap from the image sequence. This can be
    rather time consuming. You can speed this operation up by reducing the
    colors in the image before you "animate" them. Use mogrify to  color
    reduce the images to a single colormap. See mogrify(1) for details.
    Alternatively, you can use a Standard Colormap; or a static, direct, or
    true color visual. You can define a Standard Colormap with xstdcmap.
    See xstdcmap(1) for details. This method is recommended for colormapped
    X server because it eliminates the need to compute a global colormap.

EXAMPLES
    To animate a set of images of a cockatoo, use:

   animate cockatoo.*

    To animate a cockatoo image sequence while using the Standard Colormap
    best, use:

   xstdcmap -best
   animate -map best cockatoo.*

    To animate an image of a cockatoo without a border centered on a  back-
    drop, use:

   animate +borderwidth -backdrop cockatoo.*

OPTIONS
    For a more detailed description of each option, see ImageMagick(1).

    -backdrop <color>
    display the image centered on a backdrop.

    -background <color>
    the background color

    -bordercolor <color>
    the border color

    -borderwidth <geometry>
    the border width

    -cache <threshold>
    megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache

    -chop <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-}<y>{%}
    remove pixels from the interior of an image

    -colormap <type>
    define the colormap type

    -colors <value>
    preferred number of colors in the image

    -colorspace <value>
    the type of colorspace

    -crop <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-}<y>{%}
    preferred size and location of the cropped image

    -debug enable debug printout

    -delay <1/100ths of a second>
    display the next image after pausing

    -density <width>x<height>
    vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image

    -depth <value>
    depth of the image

    -display <host:display[.screen]>
    specifies the X server to contact

    -dispose <method>
    GIF disposal method

    -dither
    apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image

    -font <name>
    use this font when annotating the image with text

    -foreground <color>
    define the foreground color

    -gamma <value>
    level of gamma correction

    -geometry <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-}<y>{%}{@} {!}{<}{>}
    preferred size and location of the Image window.

    -help print usage instructions

    -iconGeometry <geometry>
    specify the icon geometry

    -iconic
    iconic animation

    -interlace <type>
    the type of interlacing scheme

    -map <type>
     display image using this type.

    -matte store matte channel if the image has one

    -mattecolor <color>
    specify the matte color

    -monochrome
    transform the image to black and white

    -name name an image

    -noop NOOP (no option)

    -pause <seconds>
    pause between animation loops [animate]

    -remote
    perform a remote operation

    -rotate <degrees>{<}{>}
    apply Paeth image rotation to the image

    -sampling_factor <horizontal_factor>x<vertical_factor>
    sampling factors  used by JPEG  or MPEG-2 encoder and YUV
    decoder/encoder.

    -scenes <value-value>
    range of image scene numbers to read

    -shared_memory
    use shared memory

    -size <width>x<height>{+offset}
    width and height of the image

    -text_font <name>
    font for writing fixed-width text

    -title <string>
    assign title to displayed image [animate, display, montage]

    -treedepth <value>
    tree depth for the color reduction algorithm

    -trim trim an image

    -verbose
    print detailed information about the image

    -visual <type>
    animate images using this X visual type

    -window <id>
    make image the background of a window

    For a more detailed description of each option, see ImageMag-
    ick(1).

    Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect for
    the group of images following it, until the group is terminated
    by the appearance of any option or -noop. For example, to ani-
    mate three images, the first with 32 colors, the second with an
    unlimited  number  of colors, and the third with only 16 colors,
    use:

    animate -colors 32 cockatoo.1 -noop cockatoo.2
     -colors 16 cockatoo.3

    Animate options can appear on the command  line or in your X
    resources  file. See X(1). Options on the command line supersede
    values specified in your X resources file. Image filenames may
    appear in any order on the command line if the image format is
    MIFF (refer to miff(5) and the scene keyword is specified in the
    image. Otherwise  the images will display in the order they
    appear on the command line.

MOUSE BUTTONS
    Press any button to map or unmap the Command widget. See the next sec-
    tion for more information about the Command widget.

COMMAND WIDGET
    The Command widget lists a number of sub-menus and commands. They are

   Animate

     Open
     Play
     Step
     Repeat
     Auto Reverse

   Speed

     Faster
     Slower

   Direction

     Forward
     Reverse

   Image Info
   Help
   Quit

    Menu items with a indented triangle have a sub-menu. They are repre-
    sented above as the indented items. To access a sub-menu item, move the
    pointer to the appropriate menu and press a button and drag. When you
    find the desired sub-menu item, release the button and the command is
    executed. Move the pointer away from the sub-menu if you decide not to
    execute a particular command.

KEYBOARD ACCELERATORS
     Ctl+O

    .in 20 Press to load an image from a file.
     space

    .in 20 Press to display the next image in the sequence.
     <

    .in 20 Press to speed-up the display of the images.  Refer
    to -delay for more information.
     >

    .in  20 Press to slow the display of the images. Refer to
    -delay for more information.
     ?

    .in 20 Press to display information about the image.
    Press any key or button to erase the information.
    This information is printed: image name; image size; and
    the total number of unique colors in the image.
     F1

    .in 20 Press to display helpful information about ani-
    mate(1).
     Ctl-q

    .in 20 Press to discard all images and exit program.

X RESOURCES
    Animate options  can appear on the command line or in your X resource
    file. Options on the command line supersede values specified in your X
    resource file. See X(1) for more information on X resources.

    All animate options have a corresponding X resource. In addition, the
    animate program uses the following X resources:

     background (class Background)

    .in 20

    Specifies the preferred color to use for the Image window
    background. The default is #ccc.
     borderColor (class BorderColor)

    .in 20

    Specifies the preferred color to use for the Image window
    border. The default is #ccc.
     borderWidth (class BorderWidth)

    .in 20

    Specifies the width in pixels of the Image window border.
    The default is 2.
     font (class Font or FontList)

    .in 20

    Specifies the name of the preferred font to use in normal
    formatted text. The default is 14 point Helvetica.
     foreground (class Foreground)

    .in 20

    Specifies the preferred color to use for text within the
    Image window. The default is black.
     geometry (class geometry)

    .in 20

    Specifies the preferred size and position of the image
    window. It is not necessarily obeyed by all window man-
    agers. Offsets, if present, are handled in X(1) style. A
    negative x offset is measured from the right edge of the
    screen to the right edge of the icon, and a negative y
    offset is measured from the bottom edge of the screen to
    the bottom edge of the icon.
     iconGeometry (class IconGeometry)

    .in 20

    Specifies the preferred size and position of the applica-
    tion when iconified. It is not necessarily obeyed by all
    window managers. Offsets, if present, are handled in the
    same manner as in class Geometry.
     iconic (class Iconic)

    .in 20

    This resource indicates that you would prefer that the
    application's windows initially not be visible as if the
    windows had be immediately iconified by you. Window man-
    agers may choose not to honor the application's request.
     matteColor (class MatteColor)

    .in 20

    Specify the color  of windows. It is used for the back-
    grounds of windows, menus, and notices. A 3D effect is
    achieved by using highlight and shadow colors derived from
    this color. Default value: #ddd.
     name (class Name)

    .in 20

    This resource specifies the name under which resources for
    the  application should be found. This resource is useful
    in shell aliases to distinguish between invocations of an
    application, without resorting to creating links to alter
    the executable file name. The default is the application
    name.
     sharedMemory (class SharedMemory)

    .in 20

    This resource specifies whether animate should attempt use
    shared memory for pixmaps. ImageMagick must be compiled
    with shared memory support, and the display must support
    the  MIT-SHM extension. Otherwise, this  resource  is
    ignored. The default is True.
     text_font (class textFont)

    .in 20

    Specifies the name of the preferred font to use in fixed
    (typewriter style) formatted text. The default is 14 point
    Courier.
     title (class Title)

    .in 20

    This resource specifies the title to be used for the Image
    window. This information is sometimes used  by a window
    manager to  provide some sort of header identifying the
    window. The default is the image file name.

ENVIRONMENT
    DISPLAY
    To get the default host, display number, and screen.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    The MIT X Consortium for making network transparent graph-
    ics a reality.

    Michael Halle, Spatial Imaging Group at MIT, for the ini-
    tial implementation of Alan Paeth's image rotation  algo-
    rithm.

    David Pensak, duPont, for providing a computing environ-
    ment that made this program possible.
     Paul Raveling, USC Information Sciences Institute.

    The spatial subdivision color reduction algorithm is based
    on his Img software.

SEE ALSO
   display(1), composite(1), conjure(1), convert(1), identify(1),
   ImageMagick(1),import(1),mogrify(1),montage(1)

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2002 ImageMagick Studio

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AUTHORS
 John Cristy, ImageMagick Studio LLC,
    Glenn Randers-Pehrson, ImageMagick Studio LLC.