by James Patterson. Displaying a sequence of images creates the illusion of motion. Twelve images are loaded and each is displayed individually in a loop.
Original Processing.org Example: Sequential
// All Examples Written by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
// unless otherwise stated.
int numFrames = 12; // The number of frames in the animation
int frame = 0;
PImage[] images = new PImage[numFrames];
void setup()
{
size(200, 200);
frameRate(30);
images[0] = loadImage("PT_anim0000.gif");
images[1] = loadImage("PT_anim0001.gif");
images[2] = loadImage("PT_anim0002.gif");
images[3] = loadImage("PT_anim0003.gif");
images[4] = loadImage("PT_anim0004.gif");
images[5] = loadImage("PT_anim0005.gif");
images[6] = loadImage("PT_anim0006.gif");
images[7] = loadImage("PT_anim0007.gif");
images[8] = loadImage("PT_anim0008.gif");
images[9] = loadImage("PT_anim0009.gif");
images[10] = loadImage("PT_anim0010.gif");
images[11] = loadImage("PT_anim0011.gif");
// If you don't want to load each image separately
// and you know how many frames you have, you
// can create the filenames as the program runs.
// The nf() command does number formatting, which will
// ensure that the number is (in this case) 4 digits.
//for(int i=0; i<numFrames; i++) {
// String imageName = "PT_anim" + nf(i, 4) + ".gif";
// images[i] = loadImage(imageName);
//}
}
void draw()
{
frame = (frame+1)%numFrames; // Use % to cycle through frames
image(images[frame], 0, 0);
}