% Darren Pais
% Caltech, Aug 4, 2005
% playmovie.m

% NOTE: Open your Matlab figure before running this 
% This funtion creates an AVI movie clip by rotating the current figure
% all around, 360 degrees. The elevation is maintained at 30 degrees and
% the Azimuth begins at the default -37.5 degrees and goes all the way
% around counter-clockwise.
% The output avi file is darren.avi and is created in the current directory


% Setup aquiring frames while changing the Azimuth by 1 degree in each
% frame.
for j = 1:360
    view(-37.5-j,30);
    F(j) = getframe(gcf);
end


% Convert the Matlab movie to and exportable AVI format.
movie2avi(F,'darren','quality',90);


% Note that the AVI movies created can be further compressed to other
% formats such as MPEG2.