Swarm starts to talk MNG

[Ralf Stephan]

ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/users-contrib/anarchy/MNGVideo-0.1.tar.gz
http://me.in-berlin.de/~rws/swarm.html

>From the README:

General description
-------------------
At the present version, using the class(es) from this package, you can
generate videos in the MNG format[*] from your Swarm model runs, both GUI
and non-GUI, with white pixels for agents and black pixels for background.
Magnification, as in ZoomRaster, is supported and yields significant
space savings with respect to MPEG-1.  To view the videos one could use
the Mozilla[*] or Konqueror[*] browsers, or one of the viewers from the
contrib directory of the libmng package[*].  No additional code is needed
for creation as Swarm already presupposes the existence of libpng.  The
PNG/MNG file formats are patent-free.

[the sad fact being that Swarm+BLT still can be faster RENDERing the videos
than GTK/SDL players/browsers playing them back]

[*]
http://www.libmng.com
http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.konqueror.org
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html

Enjoy and contribute,
ralf

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