How do I create an animation?

[yutik-nn]

Hi @bjlittle, it's Yuta. We've met at the SciPy.

I want to create a 3D animation of the SSH on Earth (globally, not just a little domain) to use in my final presentation for the internship.
You kindly showed me how to achieve a static result. Not I am wondering how exactly you created an animation that you have in the example with WaveWatch3.
I have gone through the example code, but it seems to be for 1 step at a time, and the data from the pantry don't even seem to have the time dimension.
Simply running the example doesn't produce the animated result. How do I do it?

Thank you!!!

[bjlittle]

Hey @yutik-nn !

Great to hear from you 😀

Thanks for making my SciPy. It was so cool and a total pleasure to hangout with you during the SciPy sprints and introduce you to geovista.

I've not shared any example code for creating realtime time-series animations simply because of the amount of data involved. Initially, I just wanted to showcase that it was possible. Nevertheless, I'd love to help you 👍

Is it possible for you to share your data with me somehow? Is it publicly available somewhere that I can download?

I can show you how to run a time-series animation in real-time within a QT window, or within a Jupyter notebook and use ipywidgets to control the animation with sliders. It's also easy to create GIFs using PyVista. It all depends on how you want to present the animation.

[bjlittle]

@yutik-nn How about this? 😉

yuta-sla.mp4

[yutik-nn]

Wow @bjlittle ! This looks amazing. For some reason I am not able to render my own data. Even when it's not animated the result comes out gray. I have got to figure it out.
Can you please share the code for the above animation? So cool.

[trexfeathers]

Hi @yutik-nn, there might be some delay until @bjlittle comes back from holiday.

[bjlittle]

Thanks @trexfeathers 🥰

@yutik-nn and I caught up on slack 👍

[rajivjha0599]

hey @bjlittle great work !
Can you share me the code for same as i'm working on something similar.

[trexfeathers]

You could take a look at #330, which includes animation. I found this PyVista documentation very useful: Create a GIF Movie — PyVista 0.41.1 documentation

[yutik-nn]

Thank you, I will go read it.

[bjlittle]

@all-contributors please add @trexfeathers for question

[bjlittle]

Hmmm interesting the @all-contributors 🤖 doesn't respond to GH Discussion comments ... good to know 🤔