The format should be open can make interactive animations with mouse easily inte

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The format should be

open
can make interactive animations with mouse
easily integrable to other animations of the same format
preferably converters from SWF (not necessary)

I cannot use SWF in the long-run because it is not open. I run all the time into problems when I have to combine a few animations and make a new one. I need to see the source code of the format and its tools to understand it.

To control system complexity and bind things together

make

I think I partially go into the area of Mathematical simulation tools

Matlab (I have problems in large scaling so no)
SageMath (potential most)
R (have to clarify still to myself where to use this exactly)

My current needs seem to be tools which I can port in terminal

inkscape
SWF (only for existing SWF documents; so probably best idea is to separate this from the main stream; so we can use LaTeX)
R (this will be useful in controlling and binding different systems together)

What is a good open interactive animation format for research?

Explanation / Answer

LaTeX

You can use LaTeX to create increadible animations. Some simple animations and explanations how to do so are here.

The idea is to create a PDF with multiple pages and every page is one frame of the animation. Then you can use standard tools to generate a gif animation (or whatever you want) from those single images.
HTML5

It might be much easier to use a HTML5 canvas and JavaScript to generate animations.

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