The first data band will be the currently displayed image. Animate will sequence through the data bands in the image. If you do not have a multiband image for input to animate, you may instead provide a basename that specifies a group of single band images that can be used with animate. This is because alphabetically, image.1 will be followed by image.10 and image.2 will be followed by image.20 unless you follow the preceding naming convention. If desired, a bit image may be provided to act as a shape mask.
Images work best as shape masks when they are the same size as the input data.
Only very simple BIT images should be used as shape masks. If desired, a bit image may be input and used as a clip mask. All other parts of the current frame will appear in the background color of the image window. Images work best as clip masks when they are the same size as the input data. The default action of animate is to convert all images into pixmaps before animating the different images.