Thanks for the answer, pyplot looks great and seems to be the easiest way to animate a plot.
I tried with Winston and I just managed to do a simple animation as follows: using Winston frame(f, u; pts = 1000, kw...) = Curve([real(f(t,u)) for t in 0:1/pts:1],[imag(f(t,u)) for t in 0:1/pts:1], kw...) function animate(f, seq ; pts = 1000, kw...) for C in [frame(f, u, points = pts) for u in seq] p = FramedPlot(kw...) ; add(p, C) ; display(p) end end # This draws a circle. f is a complex valued function of two variables. animate((t,u)-> exp(im*t*u), 0:.05:7, xrange=[-2,2], yrange=[-2,2]) This works surprisingly well (comments on the code welcome) but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I will rather try Pyplot.