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Animating Graphics and Playing Sound

You can run any sequence of graphics as a movie. The movie appears in the most visible cell in the sequence. You can also play sounds if your computer has audio hardware installed.

To animate a set of graphics:

  1. Create each frame of the animation--for example, by using a Do loop.
  2. Select the cell bracket that contains all the graphics cells.
  3. Choose Cell RightTriangle Animate Selected Graphics, or double-click any graphic. The animation appears in the most visible cell of the selected graphics.

TIPS
Bullet For a smooth animation you can align the graphics. Select the cell bracket that contains all the graphic cells, and choose Cell RightTriangle Align Selected Graphics.
Bullet When you animate graphics, a control bar appears at the bottom of the notebook. This bar allows you to control the speed and direction of the animation.

To play sound:

  1. Use the Mathematica commands Play or ListPlay to create a sound.
  2. To play the sound, double-click the speaker image at the top of the cell bracket.

To adjust the sound volume:

TIPS
Bullet You must have speakers to play sounds.
Bullet Windows and Macintosh: If your system has audio input hardware, you can record sounds in Mathematica using Input RightTriangle Record Sound.
Bullet Unix: Sound is not supported under Digital Unix or AIX.

For more information
Bullet Animation and sound: The Mathematica Book, Sections
1.9.11 and 1.9.12.


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