The commands in this menu are used to control the speed of animation from data from an Animation or Comparison Source
Click on the turtle of the rabbit on the Toolbar to decrease or increase the animation speed.
During Sweep animation, the animation speed is controlled by how many samples of Trace data are skipped or interpolated.
For a speed of 1, every sample of Trace data is displayed during a sweep.
For a speed greater than 1, samples of Trace data are skipped over.
For a speed of 2, every other sample is displayed, for a speed of 3, every third sample is displayed, and so on.
For a speed less than 1, shape values are calculated using linear interpolation between adjacent samples of Trace data.
For a speed of 0.5, one interpolated value is calculated between adjacent samples, for a speed of 0.33, two interpolated values are calculated between adjacent samples, and so on.
Sweep speed from a Shape Table is controlled by specifying the number of sine dwell cycles to be completed before displaying the next shape in the Shape Table.
The number of cycles of animation is specified on the Animation tab in the File | Shape Table Options box.
During Sine Dwell animation, the animation speed is controlled by using a different number of sine values per cycle of animation.
For a speed of 4, four sine values per cycle is used.
For a speed of (N>4), N sine values per cycle are used.
If Amplitude and Speed is checking on the Animation tab in File | Structure Options, the animation amplitude and speed are displayed in the Legend box during animation.