#pylint: disable=too-many-arguments from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function) import numpy from wand.image import Image from wand.drawing import Drawing from wand.color import Color from PyQt4.QtCore import QByteArray, QBuffer def animate_slice(sliceviewer, name, start, end, filename, num_frames=10, font_size=24): """Generate an animated gif of a 2D slice moving through a third dimension. Args: sliceviewer (SliceViewer): A sliceviewer instance. name (str): The name of the third dimension to use. start (float): The starting value of the third dimension. end (float): The end value of the third dimension. filename (str): The file to save the gif to. Kwargs: num_frames (int): The number of frames the gif should contain. font_size: (int): The size of the caption. Example: ws = CreateMDWorkspace(3, Extents=[-10,10,-10,10,-10,10], Names=["X","Y","Z"], Units=["u","u","u"]) FakeMDEventData(ws, PeakParams=[10000,0,0,0,1]) sv = plotSlice(ws) #Resize and configure the slice viewer how you want the output to look sv.setNormalization(1) # We need to normalize by volume in this case, or the data won't show up #This will create a gif iterating from Z = -1 to Z = 1 animate_slice(sv, "Z", -1, 1, "output.gif") """ #Generate all the individual frames images = [] for slice_point in numpy.linspace(start, end, num_frames): sliceviewer.setSlicePoint(name, slice_point) sliceviewer.refreshRebin() qimg = sliceviewer.getImage().toImage() data = QByteArray() buf = QBuffer(data) qimg.save(buf, "PNG") image = Image(blob=str(data)) captionstrip_size = font_size + 10 #To add whitespace to the top, we add a vertical border, #then crop out the bottom border image.border(Color("#fff"), 0, captionstrip_size) image.crop(0, 0, image.width, image.height - captionstrip_size) #Write the caption into the whitespace draw = Drawing() draw.font_size = font_size draw.text(5, font_size,"%s = %g" % (name,slice_point)) draw(image) images.append(image) #Create a new image with the right dimensions animation = Image(width=images[0].width, height=images[0].height) #Copy in the frames from all the generated images for image in images: animation.sequence.append(image.sequence[0]) #Drop the initial blank frame del animation.sequence[0] #Write the animation to disk animation.save(filename=filename)