From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri May 16 05:55:00 1997
Subject: plot to GIF
From: holz at zib dot de (Martin Holz)
To: Stefan Mueller <mueller at num dot bi dot ruhr-uni-bochum dot de>
Cc: Help-Octave <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 12:54:48 +0200

Stefan Mueller writes:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > Does anyone know how to convert a plot(..)
 > to a GIF image?
 > 
 > I'd also like to know if anyone knows how to
 > do animations in Octave?
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks for helping,
 >   Stefan Mueller
 > 


Hi Stefan,
test, if your gnuplot supports the gif format. 
Start gnuplot and try 'set term'. 

If you have gif support, start octave an try
 gset term gif
 gset output "filename.gif"
 replot

 gset term x11 	 
 
If you don't have gif support, you can either rebuild gnuplot or 
save your file using the Portable Bitmap Format (*.pbm) and convert
it to gif using the pbmtools.

Octave is not very usefull for animations, but you can create single
pbm images and make a mpeg video using mpeg_encode. 

	Martin