A Javascript Viewer for Matplotlib Animations

Sun 19 May 2013

I'll cut to the chase: here's what I've created: a javascript-based animation viewer, with hooks to embed it in IPython. It's best viewed in a modern browser (unfortunately Firefox does not currently qualify as "modern" due to its lack of HTML5 support)

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%pylab inline

Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment [backend: module://IPython.kernel.zmq.pylab.backend_inline].
For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.

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# get the JSAnimation import at https://github.com/jakevdp/JSAnimation
from JSAnimation import examples
examples.basic_animation()

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