Creating an animation demonstrating astronomical parallax in IDL
Posted originally in this blog post in 2012, updated in 2014. Re-discovered and code made open in 2018.
- IDL (used version 7.0, newer probably works) to render the images as .eps files
- ImageMagick to
convert
from IDL's normal .eps files to single .gif files - gifsicle to render .gif images into an animated GIF
Note: Now I would do this via Python, but I would probably render it still using gifsicle...