Answer:
First have a look at animate.dem in the demo directory of gnuplot. Basically, animated graphs are a sequence of plots in a suitable format.
If your installation of gnuplot is linked with gd 2.0.29 or newer (see previous entry), the gif terminal can generate directly an animated GIF.
Otherwise, have a look at the tool whirlgif 3.04, available at http://www.danbbs.dk/ dino/whirlgif. It reads run-length encoded GIF files and packs them into a minimal animation. On the web-pages you will find a manual and an example.
You can also write a small script to get gnuplot to output a family of GIF files, then have it execute some animator such as gifsicle: http://www.lcdf.org/ eddietwo/gifsicle or gifmerge http://the-labs.com/GIFMerge.
mpeg_encode will encode a sequence of images into an mpeg format movie.
If your installation of gnuplot is linked with gd 2.0.29 or newer (see previous entry), the gif terminal can generate directly an animated GIF.
Otherwise, have a look at the tool whirlgif 3.04, available at http://www.danbbs.dk/ dino/whirlgif. It reads run-length encoded GIF files and packs them into a minimal animation. On the web-pages you will find a manual and an example.
You can also write a small script to get gnuplot to output a family of GIF files, then have it execute some animator such as gifsicle: http://www.lcdf.org/ eddietwo/gifsicle or gifmerge http://the-labs.com/GIFMerge.
mpeg_encode will encode a sequence of images into an mpeg format movie.
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