Yes I have used the idt animator. It does work well bt
but it suffers from slow load times when the client is
not the same as the server machine. Also any action
on the window (such as iconifying it or covering it up
with a useful xterm during a load) causes either an
abort or a covered image.
The network slowdown could be bypassed by creating
a client side image, compressing it, sending the
compressed image to the server machine and running
an image ingestor/animator on the server.. this
is fast enough so that one does not even need to store
an animation in server memory unless one wishes to
see a true jerk free movie. I usually use animators
for extremely fast random access to frames.
I have not had the time however to write my own
animator or strip the image loading kernel out
of one to which I have source code. I have
one that works on crays, and suns but not
the more powerful SGI and linux machines (some
problem with XCreateImage returning a zero
pointer value to the XImage structure). I am
not a skilled C programmer and have not had
time to run this down.
Incidentally I am an old GFDL alumnus (March
1982 to August 1984 after which I left for
grad school). Despite the poor pay (GS5-7)
It was an overwhelmingly positive experience.
I now support NCEP (the old NMC) as one of
the four Cray analysts.
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