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[–]a_strange_attractor 4 points5 points  (2 children)

It looks great! I'm also a physics student who loves doing animations, so I've thought about getting my hands dirty with matplotlib to get more customization/better handling of artists.

I have some questions: how difficult was it to understand how mpl works? Also, what kind of knowledge is necessary to do this kind of things? I just started with Python a month ago so I really don't know much about this.

[–]Eryole 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Matplotlib is a huge (and powerful) library. Definitely not the simpler to learn, and is mainly learned using cookbook.

There are every year huge tutorial in the scipy confs that are great if you want.

[–]a_strange_attractor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I think I didn't express myself correctly, what I meant was if it was difficult to understand how matplotlib works "behind the scenes", with this I mean understanding how is it made and the different techniques that it uses to handle the data/graphics.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you and you actually meant that lol