Show Animation in PDF Through Latex
Motivation
- Sometimes, animation is a great boost for a scientific idea in a paper.
- Though PDF is a old fashion communication media, we could add animation to it to give it some vigor.
Method
For small gif type short movie, using animate is a good choice. The syntax for using it is simple
\usepackage{animate}
...
\animategraphics{24}{anim-}{0}{99}
You need to have an image sequence, e.g. named anim-%d.png then you can let latex process it into an animation.
If you already got a bunched gif file at hand, you need to export it into an image sequence. Then ImageMagick is your friend! It’s a command line tool supporting many image manipulations. Here you need
magick convert alpha=0.100000_beta=0.900000.gif -coalesce anim.png
Then you will have your image sequence there.
Note: Directly using convert is good on Unix system. For windows, there is a system program convert.exe shipped with Windows. So you have to use magick convert
Then you get your animation in the paper!
Reference
For bugs and compilation problems see the following resources:
https://liam.page/2017/08/10/importing-animate-in-LaTeX/
https://texblog.org/2018/03/05/the-animate-package/
https://help.geogebra.org/topic/how-to-include-animated-gif-in-latex-pdf
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7602/how-to-add-a-gif-file-to-my-latex-file
