Question: Spiralgraph or Kalidascope and a couple of oddities

Maples own spiralgraph or kalidascope.

It's kind of annoying sometimes when you create a plot and you haven't got enough points to see a nice smooth curve.  It's an easy fix, of course. Just add numpoints=x where x is any number you want.

However, that being neglected this simple little animation reminded me of the spiralgraph craze in the early 80's, or could even be a kalidascope if the colors changed.

with(plots):
animate(spacecurve,[[sin(x*t),x,cos(x*t)],x=0..70*Pi],t=0.1..1,color=blue,frames=400)

Couple of oddities - Maple doesn't like to export animations with too many frames, I can't remember but I think there was a limit of 50 or 200 after which Maple appears to freeze.  I won't experiment now but I couldn't export the above to an animated gif.  And setting numpoints high in an animation with many frames is asking for trouble, make sure you're stop icon is visible so you can stop the calculation or Maple will appear to freeze up. 

Lowering the frames will make the animated gif choppy but fast so you'd need to lower the fps.  On that note is there any way to set the frames per second default of 18 to something else by code?