.. _animation-simple_anim: animation example code: simple_anim.py ====================================== [`source code `_] :: """ A simple example of an animated plot """ import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.animation as animation fig, ax = plt.subplots() x = np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, 0.01) # x-array line, = ax.plot(x, np.sin(x)) def animate(i): line.set_ydata(np.sin(x+i/10.0)) # update the data return line, #Init only required for blitting to give a clean slate. def init(): line.set_ydata(np.ma.array(x, mask=True)) return line, ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, animate, np.arange(1, 200), init_func=init, interval=25, blit=True) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)