animating scatter points (from files)

Hello,

I have a use case of wanting to ?animate? scatter points whose coordinates are being written to files (per time step). So, basically, I?d like to be able to loop over reading the files in a directory, parse them to extract coords, and smoothly plot the points in a window. The number of points will change per time step. Suggestions? Do I want to use the FuncAnimation method or something else?

thanks!
Randy

That sounds like a perfect use for FuncAnimation with plot() or scatter()
to me. You only really need to use scatter if you want to change the
size/color of points based on another variable.

Ryan

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On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Heiland, Randy <heiland at iu.edu> wrote:

Hello,

I have a use case of wanting to ?animate? scatter points whose coordinates
are being written to files (per time step). So, basically, I?d like to be
able to loop over reading the files in a directory, parse them to extract
coords, and smoothly plot the points in a window. The number of points will
change per time step. Suggestions? Do I want to use the FuncAnimation
method or something else?

thanks!
Randy

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