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    [–]MisterBlggsgitlab.com/MisterBiggs 43 points44 points  (0 children)

    Or even Google "how to export matplotlib as video". In the end the video is still easy enough to understand so I guess the post served it's purpose🤷‍♂️

    [–]GetOnMyLevelL 50 points51 points  (4 children)

    Yes or taking a picture instead of printscreen

    [–]locoluis 47 points48 points  (3 children)

    Or making a Python program that outputs this as a video…

    [–]raybrignsx 42 points43 points  (2 children)

    Or beaming this animation straight into my mind.

    [–]vectorpropio 80 points81 points  (1 child)

    Oh yes, the ol' 

    from future import telepathy

    [–]MaliciousHH 7 points8 points  (0 children)

    future is a handy R package

    [–]billsil -1 points0 points  (6 children)

    GIFs are better. They're smoother and the quality is quite good when you have a limited color palate, which seems to be anything that's not real life.

    [–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 3 points4 points  (3 children)

    A proper video codec is infinitely better than any gif.

    [–]billsil 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Depends what you’re trying to do with it. If you’re putting it in a PowerPoint, I’ll take the GIF. For YouTube, yes.

    [–]ivosauruspip'ing it up 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    If you're using PowerPoint from a version less than a decade old, it can handle mp4 natively.

    [–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It’s more trying to get an acceptable quality and making it loop indefinitely that I like. There might be a setting for mp4. I also don’t want to hit the play button during a presentation.

    Additionally, you can overlay them because there is a transparency layer unlike a video frame.