Movies!!

Earlier I developed a generic tool that would take a dataset and generate a plot of any tagged quantity (e.g. 'TIME' or 'ELECTRON_DENSITY') versus any other tagged quantity.  The tags are in the header of the data files.  The tool is generic in the sense that the file can include any new data column or stream that it wants, as long as the header information is added.

Yesterday and this morning, I used this generic tool to create another generic tool, namely a movie generator.  This can be used to make movies of any pair of tags that are dumped out at each time step.  Here are a few examples, although it would take quite a long time to explore the parameter space completely:

Pressure profile movie:

Mass density profile movie:

The evolution of the RIF neutron energy spectrum:

I think it might be nice to add the locations of the shock, the edge of the hotspot, and the outer boundary (the Lagrangian coordinate marking the location of the "Ablator" in this simulation).  I also think I'll try and make a movie of the doppler shifted spectrum of the 14 MeV neutrons, and also plot our Be9 cross sections on the same plot, so as we can see the overlap region as a function of time.

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Addendum:  Jerry wanted to know if we can do webm files instead of flv files.  Here goes: