NOTE: this package is part of matplotlib as of version 2.1. The code here is maintained only for historical purposes.
Copyright (c) 2013, Jake Vanderplas
License: BSD
This package implements an HTML/Javascript writer for Matplotlib animations. The result can be embedded in a web page, or an IPython notebook.
See a rendered example: please note the browser requirements listedbelow.
There are several scripts which demonstrate this. make_animation.py
creates a basic animation, with the frame data embedded within the HTML
document. Run this using
python make_animation.py
and then open the resulting file, animation.html using your web browser.
This file is created using the option embed = True, which means that the
image data is embedded directly in the html file in base64-representation.
This means that the animation is entirely self-contained in the file.
A more sophisticated animation can be created using
python make_lorenz_animation.py
(adapted from this blog post
The resulting file, lorenz_animation.html,
can be opened in your web browser.
This animation is created using the option embed = False, which means that
the frames are individually stored in the directory lorenz_animation_frames.
This prevents the html file from being too large.
If you have IPython notebook installed, you can open animation_example.ipynb
to see the automatic animation representation within the notebook. Simply
import the IPython_display submodule, create the animation, and the
javascript widget will appear embedded in your notebook window.
Because the animation widget uses an HTML5 slider element, it does not work in some browsers. For a comprehensive list of supported browsers, see this list.