AniS is a Java (not JavaScript!) applet for animating images over the web (through browsers). It is not a stand-alone application for image animation.
What can AniS do?
Simple animation of 2 or more images -- you can allow your visitors to have no controls, or a full-set of controls:
stop & start animation
set animation speed
single step frames and change direction of animation sequence
go directly to the first or last Frame
movie looping or "rocking" modes
Overlays of other images -- if you want to put a map base and some plots or analyses on top of a satellite image, for example. Checkboxes are used to select/un-select overlays.
Fade Between images -- using 8 bit, alpha-component. A slider may be used, or the fading may be animated.
A set of frame-based toggle buttons to turn individual frames on and off during animations (okay, so MSFC had a good idea...)
Use the same toggles to show individual frames as well
Zooming of images (and portals and overlays)
Roaming around while zoomed
Portals -- also known as viewports, or window-in-a-window
Rescaling of large images, if desired.
Automatic image refresh for real-time applications (with an optional button to turn this on and off)
Display a single frame/image in a separate browser window so the user can save or print it
Combinations of most everything!!
