[WORK IN PROGRESS]

During (conference) presentations and seminars, I’d like to make use animations to visualize vibrations simulations such as seen below. I often asked how I made it, and I tell them a combination of MATLAB, Latex (Tikz) and a commandline tool that makes a GIF from pdfs. As this is a bit overwhelming on the spot for most people, so I’ve share this process in this blogpost, to encourage others to make similar animations.

First, I’m amusing you have an installation of Latex. Then, in order to make a .GIF from the pdfs output by Latex, you’ll need to install ImageMagick

Strongly Modulated Response

Resonance Capture Cascade