Getframe very slow in loop
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I'm simulating a wave, and animating it by plotting each time step in a loop and using getframe() to store each frame in a struct. I'm using a movie instead of using pause to animate because I'd later like to save the movie.
When I comment out the getframe call, the entire script takes less than half a second to run, but with it, it takes more than 30 seconds.
u is the 2D array used to store the wave height, where each column is a position and each row is a timestep.
How do I make getframe take less time, or, failing that, is there another way I can animate the wave?
% Initialises the figure, makes it invisible so the movie is the only
% thing seen.
figure('visible','off');
hold on
% Sets y limits, with padding
ylim([min(u,[],'all') - 0.1 * range(u,'all'), max(u,[],'all') + 0.1*range(u,'all')]);
% Initialises the object used to store the image frames
F(length(t)) = struct('cdata',[],'colormap',[]);
% Plots the initial position of the wave and stores the frame
p = plot(x, u(1, :));
F(1) = getframe(gcf);
% Animates the wave
for i = 2:length(t)
% Updates the wave and stores the frame
set(p, 'YData', u(i, :));
F(i) = getframe(gcf);
end
% Makes figure visible again
figure('visible', 'on');
% Displays the movie
movie(gcf, F, 1, fps);
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Gaurav Garg
on 16 Oct 2020
Hey Manav,
getFrame captures the whole frame of the current figure and saves it into a struct. So, it is expected to take this amount of time.
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