Add animation utility

Animate/Animate.sh

+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# automatically make animations in directories with *.tdd files
+# - takes one argument, which is the name of a directory.  By default
+# the final movie file has the directory name as its own base name, so
+# it is better not to use "." as the directory (but it's not fatal).
+
+# Things to-do:  parse for005 file to e.g. set geometry of plot up better
+
+# USER NEEDS TO DEFINE LOCATION OF CUTS PROGRAM
+CUTS=$HOME/Sky3D/Utils/Cuts/Cuts  
+
+# Check gnuplot version
+GP_MAJ=`gnuplot -V |awk '{print $2}' |awk -F. '{print $1}'`
+GP_MIN=`gnuplot -V |awk '{print $2}' |awk -F. '{print $2}'`
+
+if [ $GP_MAJ -lt 4 ] 
+then
+    echo At least v4.6 of gnuplot needed.  You have ${GP_MAJ}.$GP_MIN
+    exit
+fi
+if [ $GP_MAJ -eq 4 ]
+then
+    if [ $GP_MIN -lt 6 ]
+    then
+	echo At least v4.6 of gnuplot needed.  You have v${GP_MAJ}.$GP_MIN
+	exit
+    fi
+fi
+
+if [ "x$1" = "x" ] 
+then
+    echo "$0 needs directory containing tdd files as argument"
+    exit
+fi
+
+cd $1
+step=`ls -1 *tdd |head -2|tail -1|cut -c1-6|sed s/^0*//`
+end=`ls -1 *tdd |tail -1|cut -c1-6|sed s/^0*//`
+oname=`echo $PWD|awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`
+echo "Converting $(( $end / $step )) tdd files"
+# run Cuts program on all files
+ls -1 *tdd >$$-tmp
+$CUTS <$$-tmp >/dev/null
+rm $$-tmp 
+echo "Running through gnuplot -> png"
+cat >gnu$$.gnu <<EOF
+#!/usr/bin/env gnuplot
+# gnuplot script to create animation from bunch of *rxy.txt files as output 
+# from Sky3d's Cuts program
+
+set zrange [0:0.2]
+set contour base
+set cntrparam levels incr 0.02,0.02,0.14
+unset surface
+set size ratio -1
+set view map
+set key rmargin
+
+do for [it=0:$end:$step] {
+  fname=sprintf('%06irxz.txt',it)	
+  set term png size 640,640
+  set out sprintf('%06irxz.png',it)
+  set title sprintf('$2 Iteration # %06i ',it)
+  splot fname w l t 'density'
+}
+EOF
+
+gnuplot gnu$$.gnu
+
+ rm gnu$$.gnu *r??.txt 
+echo "now making .avi"
+# with the png files created, use mencoder to make a movie
+[ -f $oname.avi ] && rm -f $oname.avi
+mencoder mf://*r??.png -mf fps=5:type=png -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell -o $oname.avi >/dev/null 2>&1
+rm *r??.png
+
+# make some other useful formats
+echo "now making .mp4"
+[ -f $oname.mp4 ] && rm -f $oname.mp4
+ffmpeg -i $oname.avi $oname.mp4 >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+if [ -f $oname.mp4 ] 
+then