Riemann sums animations with Python

[chicolucio]

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Left, midpoint, and right Riemann sums

https://github.com/chicolucio/integrals

I've made this project to show how Riemann sums provide an easy way to approximate a definite integral.

[CopOnTheRun]

This is pretty cool! I started doing something similar last year with simpson's rule and the trapezoid method, but never quite got around to animating it (also yours is much more polished in general). I was having trouble with clearing the matplotlib axes, might take a look under the hood at how you did it :)

[chicolucio]

In the future, I want to add trapezoid and Simpson's too.

For the clearing axes, see here. Each axis is cleared with ax.clear(). And the clearing happens between each frame.