User Guide

The plots[animate] Command
You can also use the animate command, in the plots package, to generate
animations.
Table 5.15: The animate Command
animate(plotcommand, plotarguments, t=a..b, ...)
animate(plotcommand, plotarguments, t=L, ...)
• plotcommand - Maple procedure that generates a 2-D or 3-D plot
• plotarguments - arguments to the plot command
• t=a..b - name and range of the animation parameter
• t=L - name and list of real or complex constants
To access the command, use the short form name after invoking the
with(plots) command.
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Maple Syntax for Creating Animations: Interactive Plot Builder
Example
The following example shows the plotting command returned by the example
in Interactive Plot Builder (page 223).
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Animate a 2-D plot
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