.. _animation-simple_3danim: animation example code: simple_3danim.py ======================================== [`source code `_] :: """ ============ 3D animation ============ A simple example of an animated plot... In 3D! """ import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.axes3d as p3 import matplotlib.animation as animation def Gen_RandLine(length, dims=2): """ Create a line using a random walk algorithm length is the number of points for the line. dims is the number of dimensions the line has. """ lineData = np.empty((dims, length)) lineData[:, 0] = np.random.rand(dims) for index in range(1, length): # scaling the random numbers by 0.1 so # movement is small compared to position. # subtraction by 0.5 is to change the range to [-0.5, 0.5] # to allow a line to move backwards. step = ((np.random.rand(dims) - 0.5) * 0.1) lineData[:, index] = lineData[:, index - 1] + step return lineData def update_lines(num, dataLines, lines): for line, data in zip(lines, dataLines): # NOTE: there is no .set_data() for 3 dim data... line.set_data(data[0:2, :num]) line.set_3d_properties(data[2, :num]) return lines # Attaching 3D axis to the figure fig = plt.figure() ax = p3.Axes3D(fig) # Fifty lines of random 3-D lines data = [Gen_RandLine(25, 3) for index in range(50)] # Creating fifty line objects. # NOTE: Can't pass empty arrays into 3d version of plot() lines = [ax.plot(dat[0, 0:1], dat[1, 0:1], dat[2, 0:1])[0] for dat in data] # Setting the axes properties ax.set_xlim3d([0.0, 1.0]) ax.set_xlabel('X') ax.set_ylim3d([0.0, 1.0]) ax.set_ylabel('Y') ax.set_zlim3d([0.0, 1.0]) ax.set_zlabel('Z') ax.set_title('3D Test') # Creating the Animation object line_ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, update_lines, 25, fargs=(data, lines), interval=50, blit=False) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)