Animation in iPython notebook

Some options you have for animating plots in Jupyter/IPython, using matplotlib:

• Using display in a loop Use IPython.display.display(fig) to display a figure in the output. Using a loop you would want to clear the output before a new figure is shown. Note that this technique gives in general not so smooth resluts. I would hence advice to use any of the below.

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  import matplotlib.pyplot as pltimport matplotlib.animationimport numpy as npfrom IPython.display import display, clear_outputt = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi)x = np.sin(t)fig, ax = plt.subplots()l, = ax.plot([0,2*np.pi],[-1,1])animate = lambda i: l.set_data(t[:i], x[:i])for i in range(len(x)):    animate(i)    clear_output(wait=True)    display(fig)    plt.show()

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