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I saw videos from Gephi analyse on youtube (like Egyptian revolucion etc.). Does anybody know how is it done? Is it possible to do it also from gexf dynamic format in some way like to play timeline or is this done with real time capturing data stream from database and then make the movie?

Hey,

Yes, nice dynamic datasets!

I don't know how they did, but here is certainly a possibility:
- build your gexf dynamic file.
- play it in the timeline while you record the animation with a video screen capture software.

Best,

Clement

But how to play timeline? There is some possibility to play it? I thought that I can only manual move with it...

Oh, I get your question now.

As far as I know, the timeline can only be moved manually now. It will surely be improved in a later version!

What you could do also is contact directly the authors of the Egypt twitter visualization and ask them how they did! I'd be curious to know whether they moved the timeline "by hand" or used a more elegant solution.

Best,

Clement

I will do it and post his answer... I hoped that he is reading this forum or for example Sebastien knows how he did it...

Hi,

He used the graph streaming API: http://gephi.org/plugins/graph-streaming/

The Play button will be developed this summer through the Google Summer of Code program.

Great! Looking for that!