Animating an imported image

How to animate an imported image in a straight line?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See attached demo for how to turn something displayed in an axes, like an image or a plot, into a movie.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

See Steve's blog for how to create an animated gif:

https://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/2019/12/20/how-to-write-animated-png-apng-files-from-matlab/

[Chelsea Mohammed]

Hey, Thanks for the assistance...

However, I don't want to create an animated gif, I want to recreate a bottling system. E.g an empty bottle is moving along a straight line and then upon a command, it gets filled.

[Image Analyst]

There is no built-in code for that. You'll have to write it yourself from lower level things like plot() to draw the bottle, and patch() or fill() to fill it with some color.

[Chelsea Mohammed]

But how do you animate the image upon a start/stop command?

[Image Analyst]

See attached demo that has a start/stop button.