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Make movies with Matplotlib

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Make movies with Matplotlib

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- Although there are many plotting packages for Python, each with different focuses and strengths. Matplotlib remains the default choice with good reason. It can produce a large variety of plots for screen and paper, it's fast, it works so many platforms and it offers the familiar pi plot interface for the many users who grew up with Matplot. Nevertheless, Matplotlib can occasionally be infuriating. It can do almost anything, but it can be very hard to make it do exactly what you want. The interface is not always consistent and there are multiple ways to achieve similar things. When I run into problems, I start with the official documentation. But I usually find a solution much more quickly with a Google search. I start by importing Matplotlib together with pillow and Beautiful Soup. Remember that we set the goal of building a time lapse from SDO images. For your convenience and in case the SDO website changes, I've…

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