Re: [Visualpython-users] capture image

You could also try your code using mayavi2's visual module
http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/example_mlab_visual.html
I don't know what version of vpython it emulates, but if your code
works in it, it will let you write the output directly.

Gary R.

On 22 August 2012 10:21, Ben Axelrod <be...@be...> wrote:
> Thanks, but I was hoping for something slightly more automated than
> taking a screenshot and cropping it.  Even if that is done programatically.
>
> I am pretty sure there is a simple way to pipe the opengl buffer to disk
> instead of the screen, and i was wondering if that feature was in vpython.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ben
>
>
> On 8/20/2012 10:24 PM, Aaron Titus wrote:
>> There's a contributed program at:
>>
>> http://vpython.org/contents/contributed/movie.py
>>
>> that shows how to use ImageMagic to capture the scene. In this case, the images are captured after a specified time interval and then used to make a movie.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Ben Axelrod wrote:
>>
>>> is there a way to capture an image of the current scene without opening
>>> the view window?  I'd like to programatically build a scene then take an
>>> image of it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Ben
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