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Animations in PostScript

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Hi all,

for creating portable animations of search processes and other longer
running tasks, I often enjoy PostScript. For example, a few simple
PostScript definitions typically suffice to get a good visual impression
of the search progress in many combinatorial tasks. I find this much
more convenient and also more beautiful and often even faster than
showing such output on the system terminal or with GUI toolkits. As an
additional bonus, the resulting images are scalable and can be easily
embedded in high-quality documents.

I have uploaded a short document that explains the underlying idea:

   http://www.metalevel.at/postscript/animations.html

An example application is a real-time illustration of the search
progress in the so-called "N-queens problem", using Ghostscript:

   http://www.metalevel.at/queens/

Please see the above page for further links. I first saw this elegant
application of PostScript in Ulrich Neumerkel's excellent GUPU system,
and hope you also find this useful!

All the best,
Markus

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Animations in PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-18 19:47 +0100
  Re: Animations in PostScript tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-03-20 14:31 -0400
    Re: Animations in PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-21 21:22 +0100
  Re: Animations in PostScript Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> - 2016-03-22 14:30 +0100
    Re: Animations in PostScript Markus Triska <triska@metalevel.at> - 2016-03-22 19:45 +0100

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