.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/animation/pause_resume.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_animation_pause_resume.py: ================================= Pausing and Resuming an Animation ================================= This example showcases: - using the Animation.pause() method to pause an animation. - using the Animation.resume() method to resume an animation. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 10-48 .. image:: /gallery/animation/images/sphx_glr_pause_resume_001.png :alt: Click to pause/resume the animation :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.animation as animation import numpy as np class PauseAnimation: def __init__(self): fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_title('Click to pause/resume the animation') x = np.linspace(-0.1, 0.1, 1000) # Start with a normal distribution self.n0 = (1.0 / ((4 * np.pi * 2e-4 * 0.1) ** 0.5) * np.exp(-x ** 2 / (4 * 2e-4 * 0.1))) self.p, = ax.plot(x, self.n0) self.animation = animation.FuncAnimation( fig, self.update, frames=200, interval=50, blit=True) self.paused = False fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', self.toggle_pause) def toggle_pause(self, *args, **kwargs): if self.paused: self.animation.resume() else: self.animation.pause() self.paused = not self.paused def update(self, i): self.n0 += i / 100 % 5 self.p.set_ydata(self.n0 % 20) return (self.p,) pa = PauseAnimation() plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_animation_pause_resume.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: pause_resume.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: pause_resume.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_