Neat stuff! Just a quick note about the 3D plot. By default, the scatter
markers are shaded to give an illusion of depth. This is often what we
want, but I think in this case, it might make sense to not do that. Add
depthshade=False to the scatter call to turn it off. I think that was added
for mpl
There is no better way to do this at the moment. There have been talk of
integrating the animation interface into Figure objects so that creating an
animation would be similar to creating any other type of plot, with
references to the animation object stored in the figure like any other
Artist.
Th
