plot to GIF

[Martin Holz]

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