matplotlib animation duration

Question

the code here below shows and saves an animation of random matrices in succession. My question is how can I adjust the duration of the animation that I save. The only parame

Answer 1

The documentation reveals that FuncAnimation accepts an argument frames, which controls the total number of frames played. Your code could thus read

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation

fig = plt.figure()

N = 5

A = np.random.rand(N,N)
im = plt.imshow(A)

def updatefig(*args):
    im.set_array(np.random.rand(N,N))
    return im,

ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig, updatefig, frames=10, interval=200, blit=True) 

ani.save('try_animation.mp4', fps=10, dpi=80) #Frame per second controls speed, dpi       controls the quality 
plt.show()

to play 10 frames.