Result animation - optionally skipping the first frame for defining color spectrum limits

Feature Requests
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This request is related primarily to analysis which using initial conditions (temperature/velocity). I’d like to suggest for the animation, to synchronize under “Automatic color spectrum limits” the “use all frames”, starting from the first selected frame. Or how about a new 3rd option “use selected frame limits”?
For the example shown, when skipping the 1st frame, the color gradient would begin with T >= the initial 293,15K and ignore meaningless temperatures between 0K and < 239,15K:

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comparison:
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Btw, it would be the same as with history outputs, where the 0/0 values ​​are logically not stored as well:

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I have a big problem with CalculiX not outputting the results for the initial zero frame. So I forcefully add a zero filed since in most cases this enables the animation of results. And then there are other issues.

I like the idea to change the Use all frames option to Use active frames.

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