Thread Subject: question on creating movie

I have 2 problems on the code as attached.
1. Size of the figure changes when it rotates. How to force
it to a fixed size?
2. mpgwrite complains the following error. Anyone has any
clue?
"??? Error using ==> mpgwrite
All movie frames must have the same size"

CFY30+


Z = peaks;
surf(Z);

axis tight
set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren');
count = 1;
for x=1:2:180
    view(x, 20)
    M(:, count) = getframe;
    count = count + 1;
end;

mpgwrite(M, colormap, 't');

"CFY30 CFY30" <cfy30@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<g15ovu$7ro$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have 2 problems on the code as attached.
> 1. Size of the figure changes when it rotates. How to
force
> it to a fixed size?
> 2. mpgwrite complains the following error. Anyone has any
> clue?
> "??? Error using ==> mpgwrite
> All movie frames must have the same size"
>
> CFY30+
>
>
> Z = peaks;
> surf(Z);
>
> axis tight
> set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren');
> count = 1;
> for x=1:2:180
> view(x, 20)
> M(:, count) = getframe;
> count = count + 1;
> end;
>
> mpgwrite(M, colormap, 't');
>



[X Y Z] = sphere(25);
sz = size(Z);
C = rand(sz(1),sz(2),3);
C(:,end,:) = C(:,1,:);

figure('color',[0 0 0]);
sp = surf(X,Y,Z,C,'FaceColor','interp',...
    'FaceLighting','phong');
material shiny
axis off vis3d
cl = camlight('right');
camzoom(1.5)
set(sp,'EdgeColor','none');
set(sp,'EdgeAlpha',1);
drawnow

view_vect_yaw = [-180:3:180];
sz_vect = size(view_vect_yaw);
for f = 1:sz_vect(2)
    view([view_vect_yaw(f) 15]);
    camlight(cl,'right')
    drawnow
    m(f) = capturescreen(gcf);
end
mpgwrite(m,C,'my_truecolor_movie.mpg',...
    [1, 0, 1, 0, 10, 1, 1, 1]);

Scott

Hi Scott,

   Your code is terrific and thanks for helping out. It
really open my eyes on how powerful Matlab is. "axis vis3d"
is what I wanted. I still encounter the problem on
converting the movie to mpeg format. "Error using ==>
mpgwrite. All movie frames must have the same size". I
checked the frames, they are not in the same size. Any idea?


Thanks,
CFY30

"Scott " <no@spam.com> wrote in message
<g17fuk$bqg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "CFY30 CFY30" <cfy30@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> <g15ovu$7ro$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I have 2 problems on the code as attached.
> > 1. Size of the figure changes when it rotates. How to
> force
> > it to a fixed size?
> > 2. mpgwrite complains the following error. Anyone has
any
> > clue?
> > "??? Error using ==> mpgwrite
> > All movie frames must have the same size"
> >
> > CFY30+
> >
> >
> > Z = peaks;
> > surf(Z);
> >
> > axis tight
> > set(gca,'nextplot','replacechildren');
> > count = 1;
> > for x=1:2:180
> > view(x, 20)
> > M(:, count) = getframe;
> > count = count + 1;
> > end;
> >
> > mpgwrite(M, colormap, 't');
> >
>
>
>
> [X Y Z] = sphere(25);
> sz = size(Z);
> C = rand(sz(1),sz(2),3);
> C(:,end,:) = C(:,1,:);
>
> figure('color',[0 0 0]);
> sp = surf(X,Y,Z,C,'FaceColor','interp',...
> 'FaceLighting','phong');
> material shiny
> axis off vis3d
> cl = camlight('right');
> camzoom(1.5)
> set(sp,'EdgeColor','none');
> set(sp,'EdgeAlpha',1);
> drawnow
>
> view_vect_yaw = [-180:3:180];
> sz_vect = size(view_vect_yaw);
> for f = 1:sz_vect(2)
> view([view_vect_yaw(f) 15]);
> camlight(cl,'right')
> drawnow
> m(f) = capturescreen(gcf);
> end
> mpgwrite(m,C,'my_truecolor_movie.mpg',...
> [1, 0, 1, 0, 10, 1, 1, 1]);
>
> Scott
>

Scott, try passing GETFRAME the handle to your figure.

Cheers
Bob