====== Steps For Creating Animated gif Images ======

**Creation of Plain gif Images From LROSE** 

Run Rview screen from the terminal using the following command from the command line:
  Rview -params ~/projDir.olds/display/params/Rview.archive
  
Right click on the Copy option on the menu bar at the top of the Rview window.
  
The radar gif image for that particular time instant will be automatically saved in the following directory:

//~/projDir.olds/data/images/cappi//

Right click on the Time option at the bottom menu bar to view the radar image of the next time instant.

Create the gif image and repeat the process. 

**Creation of Animated gif Images** 

To create an animated gif image using the saved plain gif images, run the following command from the command line:
  convert -delay 30 ~/path/of/plain_image1.gif ~/path/of/plain_image2.gif ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif

To create an animated gif **loop** using the saved plain gif images, run the following command from the command line:
<code>convert -delay 30 -loop 0 ~/path/of/plain_image1.gif ~/path/of/plain_image2.gif ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif</code>
**
Viewing The Animated gif Image** 

To view the animated gif image, run the following gif image from the command line:
  gthumb ~/path/of/animated_gif_image.gif
  
**Some Sample Animated gif Images:**

Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 12, Simple Track Number 12) from 2017/07/09, Olds radar site. 
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Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 20, Simple Track Number 38) from 2017/07/04, Olds radar site.
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Animated gif image of a case (Complex Track Number 94, Simple Track Number 94) from 2017/07/24, Strathmore radar site.
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