matplotlib animation in a jupyter notebook


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%matplotlib inline

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from matplotlib import animation, rc
from IPython.display import HTML

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print(animation.writers.list())


['ffmpeg', 'ffmpeg_file', 'html']

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# First set up the figure, the axis, and the plot element we want to animate
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.set_xlim(( 0, 2))
ax.set_ylim((-2, 2))

line, = ax.plot([], [], lw=2)



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# initialization function: plot the background of each frame
def init():
    line.set_data([], [])
    return (line,)

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# animation function. This is called sequentially
def animate(i):
    x = np.linspace(0, 2, 1000)
    y = np.sin(2 * np.pi * (x - 0.01 * i))
    line.set_data(x, y)
    return (line,)

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# call the animator. blit=True means only re-draw the parts that have changed.
anim = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, init_func=init, frames=100, interval=20, blit=True)

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HTML(anim.to_html5_video())


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# equivalent to rcParams['animation.html'] = 'html5'
rc('animation', html='html5')

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anim


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