I want to use Google Colaboratory for my python course, but the module we use for animation doesn't work there because the necessary libraries are not installed. I had planned to spend part of the weekend to see if I could find a solution but by amazing coincidence a tweet in my Twitter stream this morning had the answer!
The answer is simply to display the images sequentially and clear the output each time with clear_output(wait=True) from IPython.display. You can see the demo code I wrote below. This works very nicely on my off-line notebook (where you want to execute this line in a cell above the notebook itself: %matplotlib inline) while the animation is a bit choppy on Colaboratory, presumably due to network latency. But it's certainly good enough.
Thanks again to Twitter for saving me tons of time!
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— Oscar Branson (@oscarbranson) March 2, 2018
The answer is simply to display the images sequentially and clear the output each time with clear_output(wait=True) from IPython.display. You can see the demo code I wrote below. This works very nicely on my off-line notebook (where you want to execute this line in a cell above the notebook itself: %matplotlib inline) while the animation is a bit choppy on Colaboratory, presumably due to network latency. But it's certainly good enough.
Thanks again to Twitter for saving me tons of time!
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
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