Documentation is lacking here.
Only some examples are given.

Each directory contains the source files necessary to produce the 
example animations (all are named "movie.m1v", the extension "m1v" 
means MPEG1 VIDEO with no sound).

Example animation production requires python, netpbm and FEATPOST.
Place ANEEMATE and FEATPOST side by side in the same directory.

Someting like "source ProduceFilmN.sh" should be enough to run each 
production.

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To make your own animation copy directory multi010.
There is a python script where you may tune some variables:

    * story contains at least two sequences. A sequence is a group of
      frames sharing the same MetaPost program and the same parametric
      behaviour. Parameters are values (numbers) that may change for each
      frame and that are not "hard" written in the MetaPost program. The
      parameters replace the strings "ParameterA", "ParameterB", etc. (without
      the quotes) in the MetaPost program. Each sequence has five fields: (i)
      the name of the MetaPost program; (ii) the number of frames of that
      sequence; (iii) the initial values of the parameters; (iv) the final
      values of the parameters and (v) the functions that control the change
      of the parameters. These functions are defined in the "timefuncs.py"
      python script.
    * sourcedirectory is the directory containing the MetaPost programs.
    * prevlastframi is the number of the first frame minus one. You may
      simply produce additional frames.
    * originalfrstr is the padding for the frame numbers. For less then
      10000 frames use "0000".

Also, you may change the auxiliary files. that are used to . For instance, 
the file "central.sh" produces frame-specific scripts where the string 
"TheFrameNumber" is replaced by a frame number. The file "central.en" 
contains the video encoding parameters where "FirstFrameIndexStr" and 
"LastFrameIndexStr" are replaced by the first and by the last frame 
numbers. The python script ("central.py") is called by a bash script
("central.fi") that runs each frame-specific script, encodes the video,
plays the video and removes temporary files.


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