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README.md

GMT Animations

Resources for the GMT animation session:

Instructor: Paul Wessel

Resources

My Google Slides on GMT animation
The GMT YouTube channel

Tasks

Understand GMT's approach to making animations
Explore the movie module
Explore the events module
Make a few simple movies

Common Problems:

Your PATH does not contain "." so you must type ./yourscript.sh or bash yourscript.sh to run your script.
You skipped making just a master frame and are now lost in movie errors.
You asked for too many frames at too high resolution and it is taking too long.

Note: You can clean up the modern environment with

gmt clear sessions

Products

This session may build one or more scripts. We are doing this together "live", but if you need to go back and check you can examine my scripts here. We recommend you work through the course with us first before you open our scripts - they are there to help you later.