GIF animated plots



Creating a GIF animated plot seems to require calling the DRAW function with a list of arguments whose length is proportional to the number of "frames" in the animation.  In particular, using this standard technique seems to limit the length of a Maxima-generated GIF animation to only 60 frames.

It is possible to create longer GIF animations by producing a large number of PNG images, and then putting them together with FFMPEG (or equivalent) into a GIF animation.  However, this additional step is quite inconvenient.

Perhaps there is another way to utilize the Maxima plotting functions to create longer GIF animations.  Has anyone found one?

Thanks in advance.