Recommended Approach: Creating GIfs

[Btibert3]

Your library is fantastic. I have successfully built out a process that lets me run through a series of data and via .scatter I can plot the location of events. The issue is that the build process is painfully slow.

I have attempted various solutions (cla, clf, ax.clear). While some of my attempts certainly sped up the build, I lost the plot of the rink. As you can likey tell from this question, I am not the most robust user of matplotlib.

This is not an issue with your library of course, but I am wondering if you have any recommendations on we might be able to use the rink, perhaps plot data via .scatter, and then clear out the scatter for the next "frame" being plotted. I believe that the slowness in the build process is due to re-drawing the rink, which is why I am wondering if you have any suggestions on how to draw the rink just once in a loop.

Cheers.

[the-bucketless]

Yeah, I found this too when I was making GIFs with the BDC data. You can see how I dealt with it here.

Basically, you keep a global variable for the scatter object that you can .remove() at the start of each frame rather than re-drawing.

[Btibert3]

Great, thank you for the quick response. This is very helpful.