Matplotlib animate over an image

Question

I\'m trying to animate a bunch of constantly updating points over an image (imagine making a plotted dot move diagonally across some image). I\'ve looked at the animate exa

Answer 1

You do not need to clear the figure between every frame

#initial data 
ln, = ax.plot(x,y)
#...some loop code
    ln.set_xdata(new_x)
    ln.set_ydata(new_y)

Can you show some code of what you have tried, it will make it easier to give a more concrete answer.

Also see: using matplotlib's quiver in a loop efficiently, Visualization of 3D-numpy-array frame by frame