Can Fortran be used to create a video of changing arrays?

[Lukejambo]

Hi, using Fortran that writes a large amount of arrays to a text/dat file.

Is there some kind of software where I can create a video of these arrays changing from beginning to end?

I've tried using VMD, but cannot get dat/text files working on it.

Any input will be appreciated.

 

[jedishrfu]

What is the size of the arrays?

It seems you could write them the terminal screen and blank the screen between snapshots to show them changing in place.

 

[Lukejambo]

I need to change the size of the arrays each time I run the programme but they vary from 10x10 to 100x100.

Will I need to snapshot the screen manually? I can have over 100 arrays written to the file and it'll take a while to screen shot each one manually.

 

[jedishrfu]

You could just record the video output depending on the graphics card you have.

 

[Lukejambo]

Okay thanks and I'd need to do this in the terminal, is there a way of recording each array snapshot from a dat/text file?

 

[jedishrfu]

I would use a for loop to control calculation and then display and then sleep for a second or less and then repeat.

Prior to each snapshot display I'd clear the screen using an ANSI screen code printed to the screen.