A few months ago, I stumbled upon a timelapse of a research paper by Tim Weninger. At the time I just started writing my master thesis and I decided I would make a timelapse from my thesis as well. Unfortuantely, Weninger did not release his software, so I took matter into my own hands.
This bash script loops through a git repository to create all the intermediate versions of the paper from the Latex source files.
It then calculates the dimensions of the images in the video.
Next, the images are created from the PDFs using the montage tool from ImageMagick.
In the last part of the script, the movie is created using ffmpeg.
- A Unix-based operating system (tested on Ubuntu 12.10);
- A versioned research paper in Git;
- ImageMagick installed;
- FFMPEG with the libx264 encoder installed (Ubuntu users: follow this guide).
- Open the script file with your favorite text editor.
- Modify the input parameters.
- Run the script.
- Enjoy your movie!
My master thesis on "The Security Risks of Mobile Payment Applications Using Near-Field Communication".
- Tim Weninger, for coming up with the idea for a paper timelapse.
- Andrew Ferguson, for creating a non-generic svn version of a paper2movie script, on which this script was inspired.
- My thesis supervisors and everybody else that helped me with my thesis.
Copyright (c) 2013 Raymond Vermaas, licensed under LGPL(2.1). See LICENSE for more details.
Raymond Vermaas
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