@helix 

Second (excellent!) reply from Maplesoft Technical Support :

I have tried the export in both directions and I am not able to get it to output a gif. It works in the forward and the backward directions, but not both. This may be as a result of a bug in the export option so I have forwarded this worksheet along to our developers for review. 

I have attached the two animations that did work to this email after being combined in GIMP so hopefully this is sufficient for your presentation. 

The export goes to the last frame in the animation when finished I believe as it plays itself internally as it exports the images to the file, such that when it has reached the final frame, it stops the export function. I am not certain if this is intended or not.

@helix 

Second (excellent!) reply from Maplesoft Technical Support :

I have tried the export in both directions and I am not able to get it to output a gif. It works in the forward and the backward directions, but not both. This may be as a result of a bug in the export option so I have forwarded this worksheet along to our developers for review. 

I have attached the two animations that did work to this email after being combined in GIMP so hopefully this is sufficient for your presentation. 

The export goes to the last frame in the animation when finished I believe as it plays itself internally as it exports the images to the file, such that when it has reached the final frame, it stops the export function. I am not certain if this is intended or not.

@helix 

Input Maplesoft Technical Support :

Thirst Maplesoft Technical Support was unable to get posted worksheets K5ky 15 working. I send them my own worksheet. This was their response:

I was able to run the worksheet and export the animation using the Right-click > Export option with no troubles so I am curious as to what could be causing this on your computer.

One thing I noticed when running this worksheet was the large amount of RAM used. Having just this one worksheet executed, Maple has taken over 1 gig of RAM total. This means that as Maple Is saving the GIF, it may be running short of memory as it tries to compress the images and save the file to disk. How much memory do you have on your PC?

It may also be experiencing troubles when saving the GIF as the Maple worksheet auto-save kicks in and disrupts the export. Can you please try increasing the auto-save value in the “Tools”>”Options”>”General” tab to 10 minutes and see if you still experience the 0kb GIF issue?

@helix 

Input Maplesoft Technical Support :

Thirst Maplesoft Technical Support was unable to get posted worksheets K5ky 15 working. I send them my own worksheet. This was their response:

I was able to run the worksheet and export the animation using the Right-click > Export option with no troubles so I am curious as to what could be causing this on your computer.

One thing I noticed when running this worksheet was the large amount of RAM used. Having just this one worksheet executed, Maple has taken over 1 gig of RAM total. This means that as Maple Is saving the GIF, it may be running short of memory as it tries to compress the images and save the file to disk. How much memory do you have on your PC?

It may also be experiencing troubles when saving the GIF as the Maple worksheet auto-save kicks in and disrupts the export. Can you please try increasing the auto-save value in the “Tools”>”Options”>”General” tab to 10 minutes and see if you still experience the 0kb GIF issue?

@K5ky 

Still having problems with saving in GIF>0kb. I'm working on this possible solution:

plotsetup(gif,plotoutput = `sinplot.gif`, plotoptions = `height=216,width=288`)

http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/145813-Plotsetup-Problem 

Is not yet working for me... solution for you?

@K5ky 

Still having problems with saving in GIF>0kb. I'm working on this possible solution:

plotsetup(gif,plotoutput = `sinplot.gif`, plotoptions = `height=216,width=288`)

http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/145813-Plotsetup-Problem 

Is not yet working for me... solution for you?

@K5ky 

I Just remove the (* *)  multiple line comment?

I want to try, also want to send you the GIF picture, but don't have a lot spare time... ( can I upload GIF picture to this site; send it to you directly (< 25 MB or upload to cloud or something?

@K5ky 

I Just remove the (* *)  multiple line comment?

I want to try, also want to send you the GIF picture, but don't have a lot spare time... ( can I upload GIF picture to this site; send it to you directly (< 25 MB or upload to cloud or something?

@K5ky 

Tried running your code. Received errors:

Error, Got internal error in Typesetting:-Parse:-Postprocess : "internal error: invalid object (*

Sigma:=10;

Vx:=1;

Vy:=2;

l1:=Pi;

l2:=Pi;

Nodes:=10;

f:= FMaker(x,y,Vx,Vy,Sigma);

g:= GMaker(f,Vx,Vy,Sigma);

F:=CoeffFinder(f,Sigma,Nodes,l1,l2,Vx,Vy);

G:=CoeffFinder2(g,Nodes,l1,l2,Vx,Vy);

Waveee:=WaveMaker(F,G,Nodes,l1,l2):

plot3d(f,x=0..l1,y=0..l2);

t:=0;

plot3d(Waveee,x=0..l1,y=0..l2);

plot3d((Waveee-f),x=0..l1,y=0..l2,scaling=constrained);

*)"

@K5ky 

Tried running your code. Received errors:

Error, Got internal error in Typesetting:-Parse:-Postprocess : "internal error: invalid object (*

Sigma:=10;

Vx:=1;

Vy:=2;

l1:=Pi;

l2:=Pi;

Nodes:=10;

f:= FMaker(x,y,Vx,Vy,Sigma);

g:= GMaker(f,Vx,Vy,Sigma);

F:=CoeffFinder(f,Sigma,Nodes,l1,l2,Vx,Vy);

G:=CoeffFinder2(g,Nodes,l1,l2,Vx,Vy);

Waveee:=WaveMaker(F,G,Nodes,l1,l2):

plot3d(f,x=0..l1,y=0..l2);

t:=0;

plot3d(Waveee,x=0..l1,y=0..l2);

plot3d((Waveee-f),x=0..l1,y=0..l2,scaling=constrained);

*)"

@K5ky 

my file is 13 MB (GIF graph is 9 MB). Upload is good suggestion. I don't know how. New at Maple/ usergroup.

Copy paste from Maple to this group is not possible?

But: I tried to save for one hour. Disaster.

So again with procedure restart computer (drag)  > (re)start Maple. Load file > save Graph: again succesful in less than one minute. So that seems to be the trick? (Did for me: productivity of today: three saves graphs in GIF (ahum).

We can exchange files directly via emails?

@K5ky 

my file is 13 MB (GIF graph is 9 MB). Upload is good suggestion. I don't know how. New at Maple/ usergroup.

Copy paste from Maple to this group is not possible?

But: I tried to save for one hour. Disaster.

So again with procedure restart computer (drag)  > (re)start Maple. Load file > save Graph: again succesful in less than one minute. So that seems to be the trick? (Did for me: productivity of today: three saves graphs in GIF (ahum).

We can exchange files directly via emails?

@K5ky 

Still having same problems. Hour ago: save as GIF .

Restarted whole PC (and Maple). Luck in less then 1 minute.

You have version Maple 16? My son has version 15. Shall I try?

Keep on posting..?

@K5ky 

Still having same problems. Hour ago: save as GIF .

Restarted whole PC (and Maple). Luck in less then 1 minute.

You have version Maple 16? My son has version 15. Shall I try?

Keep on posting..?

Somebody handed me this (working!) solution I like to share:

with(plots):
p1:=animate(arrow,[<cos(tend),sin(tend),0.9*tend>,<-cos(tend),-sin(tend),0>,color=red],tend=0..50,axes=boxed,frames=150);
alpha:=1:
p2:=animate(textplot3d,[[[-1.8,0,alpha*tend,piecewise(tend<=12,"",tend<=25,"position","")]]],tend=0..50,axes=boxed,frames=150);
display(p1,p2);

Thanks!