On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 08:47:31 -0000, "Brendan DJ Murphy"
wrote:

I have been having a small amount of success in my project to dynamically create animation GIF
files from still images. I have written a small single MS-DOS batch file which, when run,
automatically downloads images and then creates animations. Have a look and tell me if you find it
useful.

http://www.djmurphy.demon.co.uk/coin

All I need to do now is to set up a scheduled task in Windows to run my batch-file at regular
intervals!
BEWARE. The GFS animation is about 3 MEG ! but I think it looks pretty cool*
I might have to shrink the image size or skip alternate frames or reduce the number of colours to
reduce its size .
Any ideas or suggestions ?

If there was any simple means of interpolating the hours between the standard
synop hours so that the whole thing could be smoothed - that would be superb.

Nevertheless an excellent animation, showing a small pool of sub-510dam air
"breaking" off the trough and disappearing over SW England. also the
development of the omega block is well shown.

JPG



(* "cool" as in a forecast of some cold weather!)