#!/usr/bin/env python """ A simple example of an animated plot in matplotlib. You can test the speed of animation of various backends by running the script with the '-dSomeBackend' flag SC Aug 31 2005 mpl 0.83.2: Here are some numbers from my system, where FPS is the frames rendered per second GTK 29 FPS GTKAgg 18 FPS GTKCairo 15 FPS TkAgg 13 FPS QkAgg 13 FPS """ import time import pylab as p # turn interactive mode on for dynamic updates. If you aren't in # interactive mode, you'll need to use a GUI event handler/timer. p.ion() tstart = time.time() # for profiling x = p.arange(0, 2*p.pi, 0.01) # x-array line, = p.plot(x, p.sin(x)) for i in p.arange(1,200): line.set_ydata(p.sin(x+i/10.0)) # update the data p.draw() # redraw the canvas print 'FPS:' , 200/(time.time()-tstart)