On 24/02/2013 18:28, Paul Anton Letnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been looking into making an animation of a mechanical system. In its > first incarnation, my plan was as follows: > 1) Make a fading line plot of two variables (say, x and y) > 2) Run a series of such plots through ffmpeg/avencode to generate an animation > > First, I'm wondering whether there's a built-in way of making a fading line > plot, i.e. a plot where one end of the line is plotted with high alpha, the > other end with low alpha, and intermediate line segments with linearly scaled > alpha. For now, I've done this by manually "chunking" the x and y arrays and > plotting each chunk with different alpha. Is there a better way? Is there > interest in creating such a plotting function and adding it to matplotlib? > > Second, is there a way of integrating the "chunked" generation of fading > lines with the animation generating features of matplotlib? It seems > possible, although a bit clunky, at present, but maybe someone has a better > idea at what overall approach to take than I do. > > Cheers > Paul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb >
I remember this http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/20/python-animation-for-mechanical-vibrations/ from a few days back, HTH. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
