Selected Examples from the Matlab Movie Project

from the class EPS 109 "Computer Simulations in Earth and Planetary Science"
in Fall 2008

Instructor: B. Militzer

Picture	Authors, title, project description as PPT or PDF file	Matlab files and command to run it	Movie files
	By Ryan Luecke and Eren Bilir "Diffusion limit aggregation in an aquarium"	(Please contact the author or course instructor for the Matlab source files) Run with: diffusion_limited_aggregation2D(5000, 100, 100, 0.05)	aquarium-long-SD-H264.mov short-slow.gif
	By Dino Bellugi "Molecular dynamics of atoms with radioactive decay" kick.ppt	(Please contact the author or course instructor for the Matlab source files) Run with: main_kick	kick.gif
	By Kelsey Jones "Winding dragon" dragoncurvemovie.ppt	run_dragoncurve2.m dragoncurve.m Run with: run_dragoncurve2	dcangle12.gif
	By Jeffrey Smith "Erosion by random walkers" simple_erosion.ppt	main.m rain.m setelev2.m flownew2.m drawlandscape.m Run with: main	erosion_movie.gif
	By Colin Phillips "Rössler attractor going crazy" EPS109_Phillips_movie_slides.ppt	(Please contact the author or course instructor for the Matlab source files) Run with: phillips_hw7_rossler_ode	rossler_attractor3.gif
	By Drew O'Kane "Diffusion limited aggregation with drift" Growing_Moss.ppt	(Please contact the author or course instructor for the Matlab source files) Run with: mossaggdrift(10000,500,250,0.1,0.1)	moss_movie.gif
	By Christopher Sherrard "Predator Prey Dynamics" PresentationSherrard.pdf eps_109_movie_document_sherrard.doc	PredatorPreySimulation.m Run with: PredatorPreySimulation	resources.gif prey.Gif predator.gif
	By Shane Frewen "Particle in B and E fields" electromagppt.ppt	electromag.m emode.m Efield.m Bfield.m Run with: electromag	electromagpro.gif
	By Nicholas Odlum "Interference of 2 waves" movie_slides.ppt	movieA.m Run with: movieA	109_movie.gif
	By Cory Matsui "Cooling of two lava dikes" CoryMatsui.ppt	(Please contact the author or course instructor for the Matlab source files) Run with: project_lava1	lava.gif

The files were written with Matlab version R2008a. Using the standard Matlab movie commands such as avifile(), addframe(), movie(), the resulting AVI movie files became extremely large. That is why most codes saved the individual frames as PNG files that were later on combined into an animated GIF file using ImageMagic's convert utility. (convert -delay 10 frame*.png movie.gif) This resulted into movie files of reasonable size.

Page created by B. Militzer        
Dec. 28, 2008