Animating Network Growth with NetworkX and Matplotlib

Question

I would like to animate a graph that grows over time.

This is what I have so far:

fig = plt.figure()
ims = []
graph = nx.Graph()
for i in range(50):
         


        

Answer 1

As the existing answers are quite old, here is a version of how the code could look like with current versions of matplotlib and networkx.

import random
import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

graph = nx.Graph()
num_plots = 50
for node_number in range(num_plots):
    graph.add_node(node_number, Position=(random.randrange(0, 100), random.randrange(0, 100)))
    graph.add_edge(node_number, random.choice(list(graph.nodes())))
    nx.draw(graph, pos=nx.get_node_attributes(graph,'Position'))
    plt.pause(0.5)