# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """Copyright 2015 Roger R Labbe Jr. Code supporting the book Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Python This is licensed under an MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file for more information. """ from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals) from matplotlib import animation import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def animate(filename, func, frames, interval, fig=None, figsize=(6.5, 6.5)): """ Creates an animated GIF of a matplotlib. Parameters ---------- filename : string name of the file. E.g 'foo.GIF' or '\home\monty\parrots\fjords.gif' func : function function that will be called once per frame. Must have signature of def fun_name(frame_num) frames : int number of frames to animate. The current frame number will be passed into func at each call. interval : float Milliseconds to pause on each frame in the animation. E.g. 500 for half a second. figsize : (float, float) optional size of the figure in inches. Defaults to 6.5" by 6.5" """ def init_func(): """ This draws the 'blank' frame of the video. To work around a bug in matplotlib 1.5.1 (#5399) you must supply an empty init function for the save to work.""" pass if fig is None: fig = plt.figure(figsize=figsize) anim = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, func, init_func=init_func, frames=frames, interval=interval) anim.save(filename, writer='imagemagick')