cmovie might do much of what you want. It's been broken for some time because of the switch from 8 bit to 24 bit graphics in X11 between R5 & R6. However, I was able to get the code transferred to Mines when Unocal got bought by Chevron. Might be time to put that up on the CWP site and see if someone will volunteer to fix it. I know quite a lot about the code as an earlier version was my introduction to C & Unix as a summer intern at ARCO's Plano Research Center (aka PRC) in 1989. In addition I added the ability to do color overlay of velocity information and fixed a lot of bugs at Unocal 10-12 years later. It felt a lot like a complete rewrite at the time. Rick is very sharp, but given to being too clever by half. I am NOT volunteering to fix it. However, if someone wants to really learn X11 I will be happy to explain what the problem is. It requires a very small amount of programming and a lot of reading and research. For those who already know X11, it's a get default visual problem. I *really* don't want to remember what the exact call is. cmovie expects an 8 bit default visual which is a rather ancient concept. It can be fixed by feeding arguments to the X server, but a proper fix would be to modify cmovie. Among other things this would greatly improve the dynamic range of the display when doing color overlays. It's really worth the work. It's a very useful program. I just don't like doing the same thing more than once, and especially dislike doing it 3 times. Though for suitably large sums I can be persuaded ;-) Have Fun! Reg Note: There are a variety of versions floating around. So there may be a working version already, though probably w/o the color overlay. That was a feature in another pair of Rick's programs, vmerge & vdisplay. |