I agree with Eric, that it would be probably overextending matplotlib too much to support this natively.
However, it might be nice to have a self-contained function that would call out to mencoder or ImageMagick to create an animation from a list of PNGs. That would make it easier to automate the creation of animations directly from matplotlib scripts. Of course, there's nothing stopping anyone from doing that in their own scripts now -- it just might be more convenient and obvious to have it "built in" to matplotlib. I think it's fair to say though that this function should not add any build dependencies, and have only optional runtime dependencies (meaning only if you want to save animations). But it needs someone to take it on, and most importantly be willing to support the numerous platform and installation issues that are likely to arise. Any takers? Mike Eric Firing wrote: > Alan G Isaac wrote: > >> Someone said: >> >>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#MOVIE >>> >> OK, this works. >> But might it be a possible goal for Matplotlib to be able >> to assemble these PNGs into an APNG? >> <URL:http://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification> >> > > I don't think it makes sense for mpl to do this; it seems to me to be > inherently a different sort of operation from plotting, and one that > would be done best by something like gifsicle in a post-processing mode. > > Eric > > >> Until then, this can be done with a FireFox 3 extension: >> <URL:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5519> >> >> Cheers, >> Alan Isaac >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
