User's guide of Proceessing Modflow 5.0

50 Processing Modflow
2.4 Animation
You already learned how to use the Presentation tool to create and print contour maps from
calculated head and concentration values. The saved or printed images are static and ideal for
paper-reports. In many cases, however, these static images cannot ideally illustrate motion of
concentration plumes or temporal variation of hydraulic heads or drawdowns. PMWIN provides
an animation technique to display a sequence of the saved images in rapid succession. Although
the animation process requires relatively large amount of computer resources to read, process
and display the data, the effect of a motion picture is often very convincible.
The Presentation tool is used to create animation sequences. The following steps show how to
use the Environment Options and Animation dialog boxes to create an animation sequence for
displaying the motion of the concentration plume in the third layer.
< To create an animation sequence
1. Choose Presentation from the Tools menu.
2. Move to the third layer by pressing PgDn twice.
3. Choose Environment... from the Options menu
4. Click the Contours tab, clear Display contour lines, and check Visible and Fill Colors.
5. Click the table header Level.
A Contour Levels dialog box appears. Set Minimum to 100, Maximum to 1600 and
Interval to 100. These values are used, because we already know the range of the
concentration values from Fig. 2.27. When finished, click OK to close the dialog box.
6. Click the table header Fill.
A Color Spectrum dialog box appears. Set an appropriate color range by clicking the
Minimum color and Maximum color buttons. When finished, click OK to close the dialog
box.
7. Click OK to close the Enviroment Options dialog box.
8. Choose Animation... from the File menu.
The Animation dialog box appears (Fig. 2.42).
9. Click the open file button .
A Save File dialog box appears. Select or specify a file name in the dialog box, then click
Open.
10. Check Create New Frames, set Result Type to Concentration (MT3D) and set Display
Time (s) to 0.1. Display Time is the display duration for each frame.
11. In the Animation dialog box, click OK to start the animation.
2.4 Animation