Jose Gomez-Dans wrote: > Hi! > > [I think the message didn't get through the first time I sent it. > Resending, and apologies if you get it twice] > > I have a rather complex basemap-derived plot that I want to save as > animation. > In essence, it uses the blumarble() to add a nice background, plots some > stuff on top of that, and also has an inset with a map of the world that > shows the area of the main map. > > The problem is that memory usage as I iterate through the frames that will > eventually make up my animation, rises very fast. I read a post some > time ago > on how to store the background, so it didn't have to be recreated > everytime > here: > <http://www.nabble.com/Save-a-plot-background-to20519596.html#a20519596> > > There's an example on how to actually do this for basemaps from J > Whitaker, > but I can't get this to work on my example. Ideally, I would like to store > the inset in a function, and my main background in another function, and > restore each axis directly. My attempt follows (which produces a blank > image) > is at <http://pastebin.com/f4636fd7f> > > Many thanks! > Jose
Jose: I think the key is to only create the basemap instance only once (for the main plot and for the inset), then re-use that basemap instance each time you create an animation frame. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : jeffrey.s.whita...@noaa.gov 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-113 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
