Good morning
I have a question regarding to animation in matplotlib using Blit.How
can I modify the example animation_blit_qt4.py that is in the
matplotlib website, in order to animate data, but instead of a white
background I want to have an image (tif or jpg)?
Many thanks for your help
German
I should first note that the way to do animations in matplotlib will probably be improved soon, the current methods should still be valid.
Ok, the way how I understand how blitting works is that a copy of the static background is made before any of the “sprites” are drawn. That static background is then redrawn at each frame to avoid having to do a complete re-render of it.
So, if you can display a particular image to a plot before calling copy_from_bbox(), but after the canvas.draw() call, then the animation should work as you would like with blitting, and you won’t need to repeat the function call to plot the background in the animation.
Note, I have not tried this, so please let us know how this works for you.
Ben Root
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:45 AM, German Ocampo <gerocampo@…287…> wrote:
Good morning
I have a question regarding to animation in matplotlib using Blit.How
can I modify the example animation_blit_qt4.py that is in the
matplotlib website, in order to animate data, but instead of a white
background I want to have an image (tif or jpg)?
Many thanks for your help
German
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Benjamin
Thanks for your advice. I Modified the example in the way that you say
and now is working well. Basically I load the image before
copy_from_bbox and also I take out the self.ax.clear() in the
timerEvent. I'm including the program example with the animation of a
dot following a circle path with lena.png in the background.
Also I import this program in a Qt4 application and works well
Best regards
German
# For detailed comments on animation and the techniqes used here, see
# the wiki entry http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations
import os
import sys
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg as FigureCanvas
from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui
ITERS = 5
import Image
import time
import numpy as np
class BlitQT(FigureCanvas):
def __init__(self):
FigureCanvas.__init__(self, Figure())
self.ax = self.figure.add_subplot(111)
self.draw()
file_image="lena.png"
#The size of Lena png is 480x480
self.im = Image.open(file_image)
self.im1 = self.ax.imshow(self.im, origin='lower')
self.old_size = self.ax.bbox.width, self.ax.bbox.height
self.ax_background = self.copy_from_bbox(self.ax.bbox)
self.cnt = 0
self.acum_cnt=0
self.angle = np.arange(0,2*np.pi,(2*np.pi)/100.)
self.x=240+200*np.sin(self.angle)
self.y=240+200*np.cos(self.angle)
self.circle_line, = self.ax.plot(self.x[0],self.y[0],"o",
animated=True)
self.draw()
self.tstart = time.time()
self.startTimer(10)
def timerEvent(self, evt):
current_size = self.ax.bbox.width, self.ax.bbox.height
if self.old_size != current_size:
self.old_size = current_size
self.draw()
self.ax_background = self.copy_from_bbox(self.ax.bbox)
self.restore_region(self.ax_background)
# update the data
self.circle_line.set_xdata(self.x[self.cnt:self.cnt+1])
self.circle_line.set_ydata(self.y[self.cnt:self.cnt+1])
self.ax.draw_artist(self.circle_line)
# just redraw the axes rectangle
self.blit(self.ax.bbox)
if self.cnt==99:
self.acum_cnt+=1
self.cnt=0
else:
self.cnt += 1
if self.acum_cnt==ITERS:
# print the timing info and quit
print 'FPS:' , (ITERS*100)/(time.time()-self.tstart)
sys.exit()
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
widget = BlitQT()
widget.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.root@...1304...> wrote:
I should first note that the way to do animations in matplotlib will
probably be improved soon, the current methods should still be valid.Ok, the way how I understand how blitting works is that a copy of the static
background is made before any of the "sprites" are drawn. That static
background is then redrawn at each frame to avoid having to do a complete
re-render of it.So, if you can display a particular image to a plot before calling
copy_from_bbox(), but after the canvas.draw() call, then the animation
should work as you would like with blitting, and you won't need to repeat
the function call to plot the background in the animation.Note, I have not tried this, so please let us know how this works for you.
Ben RootOn Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:45 AM, German Ocampo <gerocampo@...287...> wrote:
Good morning
I have a question regarding to animation in matplotlib using Blit.How
can I modify the example animation_blit_qt4.py that is in the
matplotlib website, in order to animate data, but instead of a white
background I want to have an image (tif or jpg)?Many thanks for your help
German
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