Revised Animation Tools (version 0.99)

Includes the following:

• Modified version of Ross Hatton's animation code (http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47043-animation) that supports recording output frames.
• SVG rendering through a modified version of plot2svg, with a few bugfixes implemented in the revised version. (original: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7401-scalable-vector-graphics--svg--export-of-figures)
• Single-frame SVG, PNG, JPEG and TIFF rendering through frame_print (Pre-rendering via plot2svg, post-rendering via SVGRenderer java objects and the Batik library). (Batik: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/install.html).
• Batch rendering of SVG frames using Java objects and multithreading using render_batch_svg.
• Demonstration of use of the code in animation_demonstration.
• Demonstration of how to use batch output files from render_batch_svg with MATLAB's VideoWriter class.

Bugs:

• SVG filesizes are not customizable.
• setting aspect ratios that do not match the original image result in blank space.

Tested in: Linux (Ubuntu 12.04), OSX.

Special thanks to Thomas Woodward for helping test in OSX with his Macbook Air.

Pre-Release of Animation Tools.

This release includes a modified version of Ross Hatton's animation framework and the print_frame function. This is stable, but has a limited set of options and a few bugs, including:

• output SVG files have a issue with font sizing.
• SVG files do not output to specified file size.

Use at your own risk.