Exporting a Squeak Animation

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Fri May 30 13:53:08 UTC 2003


David -- why don't you add this GIF to the Swiki, with your notes below?
It's a cool visual.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Faught [mailto:dave_faught at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 9:51 AM
> To: Squeak Mailing List
> Subject: Exporting a Squeak Animation
> 
> 
> Thanks again for your quick fix, Bert.  It worked great!
> 
> I like the idea of using Squeak to replace Powerpoint, 
> unfortunately I need to put this stuff in Powerpoint to be 
> able to share it with my Squeak-challenged co-workers.
> 
> I uploaded one of the animations that I made using Bert's changes to:
> 
     http://home.wi.rr.com/thefaughts/utilAnim.gif

It is a plot of utilization on the Y axis by hour of the week on the X
axis.  There are 7 vertical grid areas that divide the days of the week.
The animation cycles through 86 weeks of data with the most recent week,
noted at the bottom, being the strongest color and the previous weeks
gradually fading to the background.

I'm only going to leave this file on the web site for a few days because
it takes up a bunch of my space quota.  The file is just under 1 MB.
This particular animation is about 50% of the linear dimensions of the
original to reduce its file size.

This and the other animations were created using a kind of "visual data
analysis workbench" written in Squeak.  It was built specifically for
this project, but it wouldn't take a lot of work to generalize it a bit
to work with other data.  I'm still debating about releasing it to the
world, as it might fall in the category of competetive advantage for my
employer.


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