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# An animated image

This example demonstrates how to animate an image.

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import matplotlib.animation as animation

    fig = plt.figure()

    def f(x, y):
        return np.sin(x) + np.cos(y)

    x = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 120)
    y = np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi, 100).reshape(-1, 1)

    im = plt.imshow(f(x, y), animated=True)

    def updatefig(*args):
        global x, y
        x += np.pi / 15.
        y += np.pi / 20.
        im.set_array(f(x, y))
        return im,

    ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, updatefig, interval=50, blit=True)
    plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.072 seconds)

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