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Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

You're reading from   Mastering Matplotlib 2.x Effective Data Visualization techniques with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789617696
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benjamin Walter Keller Benjamin Walter Keller
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Making movies

This section describes how to generate animations to make plots along with customizing the animation frame rate, speed, and repetitions.

How to generate animations to make plots that update themselves

Let's begin by importing the necessary functions and use the Matplotlib Notebook interactive backend. We will also import the FuncAnimation method from Matplotlib.animation.

Start by making the standard basic sine plot. We have also added a function that changes the Y data by moving it over to the first argument. We will now use the func.animation method. As we call the func.animation method with the figure and our update method as the two arguments, we get a nice animation of the sine wave:

# Basic FuncAnimation...
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