save visualization as gif

[mavroudisv]

Just a simple modification that let's you save your visualizations as a gif.

[maximecb]

You should put that import in a try block or import lazily. Otherwise this could break the script if this new dependency fails to install, which is almost certainly going to happen on some systems.

[mavroudisv]

Hi Maxime,
thanks for the response. :)

Perhaps something like:

if args.gif is not None:
   from array2gif import write_gif
   frames = []

would do?

[maximecb]

Yes. Just make sure to test that it works.

[mavroudisv]

Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up using the code above.

I also thought of just ignoring the gif option if array2gif is not installed, but I think an exception is more informative for the user (i.e., to know why the gif was not generated).

[lcswillems]

@mavroudisv Thanks a lot for your PR!!

[mavroudisv]

Thank you guys for the awesome project(s). Happy to have helped a bit.