<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Does this code works for someone else?  <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think "animate=True" is even a valid keyword argument for pyplot.plot.  There is an “animated” keyword argument, but I have no idea what it does.  I doubt it actually animates anything; to do that I believe you need some kind of for-loop (or animation.FuncAnimation if you want to be fancy).  There are lots of matplotlib animation examples. <a href="http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/basic_example.html" class="">http://matplotlib.org/examples/animation/basic_example.html</a>. If molniya is just a 2xN array, looping over the N values should be straightforward.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,   Jody<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 22, 2016, at  11:06 AM, Samuel Dupree <<a href="mailto:sdupree@computational-astronomer.com" class="">sdupree@computational-astronomer.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I can't reduce the example to a point
      that demonstrates my problem without the "orbital" module.
      However, I've done some deeper digging into the "orbital" module
      to find the functions that support the plotting. I've attached
      that source file to this note, and if you could point out any
      issues you may see dealing with the animate function, I would
      appreciate it.<br class="">
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      Sam Dupree.<br class="">
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      On 4/22/16 13:48:45, Paul Hobson wrote:<br class="">
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      <div dir="ltr" class="">Can you reduce this problem down to an example that
        doesn't involve this "orbital" module? For all we know, the
        issue is in there</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:41 AM,
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              <div class="">There are two plots that should output plots showing
                a satellite orbiting about the Earth. Instead the plots
                are static which they sjouldn't be.<br class="">
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                Hope this helps.<br class="">
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                Sam Dupree.
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                    On 4/22/16 13:37:17, Paul Hobson wrote:<br class="">
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                        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at
                          10:07 AM, Samuel Dupree <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sdupree@computational-astronomer.com" target="_blank" class=""></a><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sdupree@computational-astronomer.com">sdupree@computational-astronomer.com</a>></span>
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                            matplotlib ver. 1.5.1 in an anaconda
                            distribution on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS
                            X ver. 10.11.4 (El Capitan). I'm attempting
                            to get the animation portion of the example
                            attached to this note running. I've looked
                            through the on-line documentation on plot()
                            and plot3d() but have turned up empty.<br class="">
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                            Any thoughts.<br class="">
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                          <div class="">What specific problems are you
                            encountering? Does the script halt with some
                            error messages? If so, what are they?</div>
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                          <div class="">Does the script run, but fails to produce
                            output?</div>
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                          <div class="">Does the script produce output, but it is
                            not as expected? </div>
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