Matplotlib 2.x By Example

Creating animations

Matplotlib provides two main interfaces for creating animations: TimedAnimation and FuncAnimation. TimedAnimation is useful for creating time-based animations, while FuncAnimation can be used to create animations according to a custom-defined function. Given the much higher level of flexibility offered by FuncAnimation, we will only explore the use of FuncAnimation in this section. Readers can refer to the official documentation (https://matplotlib.org/api/animation_api.html) for more information about TimedAnimation.

FuncAnimation works by repeatedly calling a function that changes the properties of Matplotlib objects in each frame. In the following example, we've simulated the change in median weekly earnings by assuming ...