Frank,
Midland Valley's 2DMove has a facility for creating animations from a series
of separate sections...
http://www.mve.com/software/2dmove/
Rob Smallshire
www.mve.com
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Tim Wynn
> Sent: 29 October 2002 18:36
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> Subject: Re: Animating structural simulations produced as Excel graphs
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> Frank,
> One way is to use Visual Basic for Applications (I would say
> that wouldn't I) to draw and then re-draw the sections in the
> spreadsheet. This could either be done by creating a drawing
> object and then updating it in a For...Next or Do...While
> loop or creating a chart and changing the the ranges that the
> chart points at within the loop. The latter solution is
> probably simpler and requires less work. If I get time I'll
> create something to demo it.
>
> Another way that doesn't involve VBA is to export the
> individual charts as bitmaps and load them into a movie
> making package. Corel PhotoPaint will do it or JASC Animation
> Shop or Microsoft GIF animator etc etc.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Wynn
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peel, Frank FJ [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 October 2002 18:26
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> Subject: Animating structural simulations produced as Excel graphs
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>
> Colleagues,
>
> Another Excel-related question for you, if you're not sick of this
> already.... I am producing a set of simple spreadsheets which
> forward model
> structural geological processes, with the aim of using these
> as teaching
> tools. The first completed spreadsheet takes an initial salt
> and sediment
> geometry, and produces a set of plots (10 in this case) showing the
> progressive development of the salt withdrawal basins and the sediment
> geometries within them in cross-section view. The simulation
> changes as the
> starting geometry, sedimentation rate, etc. are changed. The
> plots are in
> the form of Excel charts.
>
> My question is, does anyone know of an easy way of
> automatically creating
> the output as a movie or as an animated chart, rather than a series of
> separate sections?
>
> Regards
> Frank Peel
> Principal structural geologist, BHP Billiton Petroleum
>
> EOM
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