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But it won't take a lot of changes to the script to generalize it to export N generations of whatever pattern is currently in the Golly universe. Would that be helpful? Again, the only version of Golly that will run this script at the moment is a beta version, Golly 2.9b1.

I wouldn't mind trying ...

Eventually it might not matter too much if LifeViewer runs smoothly or not. If we're using a modified lifeviewer.lua to export frames from an animation, then the computer can take as long as it likes to render each frame, and it will still come out smooth when it's compiled into a video.

Totally ...

Andrew wrote:

larrylazzardo wrote:I am working on a Macbook.

Have you tried using the recording function in QuickTime Player? See here for details:

http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/16/screen-recorder-mac/

Yo ya I tried that indeed. ! But again, the recorder actually records the fluctuating speed. I want it to be smooth. Thanks tho!

Hi !

.BMP is a lossless format, so it seems a little odd that the grid lines wouldn't be rendered very well. If you look at the individual .BMP images, do you see anything wrong with them?

Yes, but I am not surprised that whatever math that affords .bmp to be lossless and such small file sizes ...

Hello,

Is it appropriate to ask for help with scripts even though I don't know anything about scripting!!?? :D

I am a visual artist, a painter, and I am trying to make some relatively simple animations of Golly in its most visually appealing activity: MOTION!!! : ) . What these animations require ...

Well there you have it. The problem was indeed the text editor I was using. I have successfully run the script and generating a whole bunch of bmap images; exactly what I wanted.

Coding is something I rarely work with save the ocassional audio/visual solution at my workplace. Thanks for helping ...

Hi, yes !

I am using Mac OSX 10.10.5

I am using a program called TextEdit for copying and saving scripts (and suddenly as I write this thinking that TextEdit may not actually be good for code editing and probably meant for simple word processing, perhaps it does something disruptive to the code ...

Hello! I went away and had to leave my attempts on the back burner. Thank you for your previous responses, I apologize for not responding sooner. I am still stuck where I left off.

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I have been trying to use the script found here which you also found some time ago. Perhaps all this time ...

Hi thank you for your help. :) Sadly I am in way over my head. While all the scripts that came with Golly seem to work fine, these ones I am now copying into notepad, saving as .py etc, all give me an error message.

"Syntax Error: unexpected character after line continuation character"

Any ...

I am an artist completely new to Golly and Python, but I have many patterns I would like to export as video or image sequences.

I found this script through the forum but it keeps giving me an error:
http://pastebin.com/8vVGCgKE

I would like to try the script you have suggested here, but I don't ...