# Creating Animated Makie Plot in Pluto
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-animated-makie-plot-in-pluto/74464
**Category:** Pluto
**Tags:** makie
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-animated-makie-plot-in-pluto/74464 "2022-01-12T04:10:30Z")
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### Author:  [@TI36XPro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TI36XPro)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 4:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-animated-makie-plot-in-pluto/74464/1 "2022-01-12T04:10:30Z")
Hello,
I’d like to embed an animation in my pluto NB. I don’t want to create an MP4 (if possible) - I just want the animation to loop. The animation itself is just a line plot. I tried following the post [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/real-time-animations-with-makie-in-pluto/63684/4). My MWE is below.
```julia
begin
using GLMakie
# animation settings
framerate = 30
# Data is x and y
# x is a 1-dimensional grid from 0 to 1
# y is a 100x2 matrix where each element of the second column
# is a vector containing the line plot at a different time step
nframes = 2:length(y[1:end,2])
fig, ax, pl = lines(x, y[1, 2]) # initial condition
record(fig, nframes; framerate = framerate) do p
pl[1] = y[nframes, 2]
end
end
```
When I try to run the cell I get the error
```julia
MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Vector{Float64} to an object of type Float64
```
If I inspect `pl[1]` I can see what looks like the plotted points in `GeometryBasics.Point` but I have no idea how to access them. Perhaps there is something obvious here - if so I apologize, I am new to Makie.
I also tried creating the animation using `Observables`. Shown below.
```julia
begin
oy = Observable(y[1, 2])
fig = Figure()
display(fig)
ax = Axis(fig[1, 1])
lines!(ax, x, oy)
ylims!(ax, 0, 1)
for time_step = 2:length(y[:, 1])
oy[] = y[time_step, 2]
sleep(0.1)
end
end
```
When I do this I get the following error.
```julia
Plot needs to be displayed to insert additional plots
```
Any hints or ideas on how I can accomplish this? Or where I am going wrong?
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### Author:  [@ffreyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ffreyer)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-animated-makie-plot-in-pluto/74464/2 "2022-01-12T11:01:48Z")
I think in the first case Makie is converting your inputs to arrays. You could check `pl[1]` to see if that’s true and update with `pl[1] = [y[nframes, 2]]` if it is.
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### Author:  [@TI36XPro](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TI36XPro)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-animated-makie-plot-in-pluto/74464/3 "2022-01-13T03:00:55Z")
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it and now I get the error
```julia
MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Vector{Any} to an object of type Float64
```