Interface with animation options in Plotly.js

[TakodaS]

Currently there is no option to access the animation options of Plotly.js from python. This makes it extremely difficult to make proper animations since the default time between frames in 500ms. I have added an extra keyword argument to offline.plot and offline.iplot called animation opts which allows the user to pass a python dictionary through and thus customize animations.

animation_opts (default=None) -- Custom animation parameters to be passed
    to the function Plotly.animate in Plotly.js in the form str(dict)
    Example:


from plotly.offline import plot
    figure = {'data': [{'x': [0, 1], 'y': [0, 1]}],
              'layout': {'xaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},
                         'yaxis': {'range': [0, 5], 'autorange': False},
                         'title': 'Start Title'},
              'frames': [{'data': [{'x': [1, 2], 'y': [1, 2]}]},
                         {'data': [{'x': [1, 4], 'y': [1, 4]}]},
                         {'data': [{'x': [3, 4], 'y': [3, 4]}],
                          'layout': {'title': 'End Title'}}]}
    plot(figure,animation_opts="{frame: {duration: 1}}")

https://github.com/TakodaS/plotly.py

[jonmmease]

Hi @TakodaS, this sounds like a fine option to add. Feel free to open a pull request if you already have an implementation to start with 🙂 Although it would need to be reworked a little once we merge #1474, which will hopefully be this week.

[TakodaS]

#1503 Done.

[gvwilson]

Hi - we are currently trying to tidy up Plotly's public repositories to help us focus our efforts on things that will help users most. Since this issue has been sitting for several years, I'm going to close it. If it's still a concern, we'd be grateful if you could open a new issue (with a short reproducible example if appropriate) so that we can add it to our backlog. Thanks for your help - @gvwilson