Additional user inputs for animate_deformedshape()

[u-anurag]

These additional inputs will make it possible to focus the animation of a specific part of the structure,

• view angle

• zoom level

[u-anurag]

@cslotboom I think the "monitorElement" user input will help here. We may not need these user inputs.

[cslotboom]

Hey, I actually didn't see this. I'm not sure how hard it will be to set these, but I'll take a look sometime soon.
I was thinking about a UI-feature that would let the user actively set plot bounds.
Something like:

I know many people aren't keen on UI in the OpenSees, so I might not peruse it.

[u-anurag]

This would be a great feature to have if we could. OpenSees core team should focus on the numerical side and we can focus on user friendliness. Go team!

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[cslotboom]

Agreed!

[u-anurag]

Is this one easy to add?

[cslotboom]

Reasonably. I believe the function has to be a class.
I actually have something that works for 2D.

My worry is the function might look kind of messy.
Maybe I will a draft of the function to the experimental folder so you can take a look.

[u-anurag]

If it easy to implement this with a class, there is no need to implement this for now. We will ultimately convert all the functions to classes. We can wait until then. I'll add this issue to milestone 3.