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t-makaro
Blitting support
In past tests, blitting has caused issues with the play/pause button. I'll need to experiment with it a bit, and maybe make changes to the Block._update methods.
An option in the Animation class to enable blitting would be ideal.
Worst case scenario, blitting isn't possible with the pause button, and I'll issue a warning if both are used.
I'm getting some very strange issues, but neither the slider or pause button work properly with blitting. Blitting works perfectly if neither of the controls are used. I also don't think that %matplotlib notebook uses blitting at all since I can't determine any difference between using blitting and not in a notebook.
I think I may wait until matplotlib 3.0 to continue further experiments with this since they are refactoring their blitting system.
Did you manage to get any further with this? Matplotlib is on v3.0.2 now, did they refactor their blitting system?
If there's really no blitting at all in %matplotlib notebook if would be useful to know if that's because of a bug or some active decision by someone.
I haven't looked into this yet.
Dev note: Exploring this involved changing the call to FuncAnimation in the Animation call to use blit=True. I previously found that the pause button in particular caused problems.