Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-29 Thread Art
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:09 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Art wrote: > > > My bottleneck now is actually saving the pngs for mencoder to make into > an > > avi (as with the movie_demo example on your site) using savefig. Do you > also > > know of an alternative way of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-29 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Art wrote: > >> My bottleneck now is actually saving the pngs for mencoder to make into an >> avi (as with the movie_demo example on your site) using savefig. Do you also >> know of an alternative way of generating an avi of the animation? My >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-29 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Art wrote: > My bottleneck now is actually saving the pngs for mencoder to make into an > avi (as with the movie_demo example on your site) using savefig. Do you also > know of an alternative way of generating an avi of the animation? My > animation has about 9000

Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-29 Thread Art
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:38 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Art wrote: > > I have a scatter plot that requires some time to render. The horizontal > axis > > is time. Currently, I generate the full scatter plot each time and draw a > > axvline to indicate the progress o

Re: [Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-29 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Art wrote: > I have a scatter plot that requires some time to render. The horizontal axis > is time. Currently, I generate the full scatter plot each time and draw a > axvline to indicate the progress of time, save the file as a png for each > time, and generate a m

[Matplotlib-users] overlaying a plot repeatedly

2009-07-28 Thread Art
I have a scatter plot that requires some time to render. The horizontal axis is time. Currently, I generate the full scatter plot each time and draw a axvline to indicate the progress of time, save the file as a png for each time, and generate a movie for all time frames. The scatter plot portion d