# Help on converting a plot animated

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** plotting\
**Created:** [November 12, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-on-converting-a-plot-animated/50017 "2020-11-12T01:06:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-on-converting-a-plot-animated/50017/1 "2020-11-12T01:06:50Z")

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Hi,  
I have a set of data as results of running an MPC on a plant. I Can plot them with different backends but all of them are kind of static and I want to have the plot somehow animated in a way that all the values send to the figure as time goes. (Something like the process control diagrams!)  
Here is the figure:

 ![file](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/2/d2859bc8b13eb596c818d8844bae8d26585be1f3.png)

and the values of each vector :

[https://github.com/Amirrezz94/LivePlot/blob/main/Static\_Plot.jl](https://github.com/Amirrezz94/LivePlot/blob/main/Static_Plot.jl)

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x1plot = [1.0, 0.9795959216465395, 1.0368036842462345, 1.2028438837092144, 1.468154989063687, 1.484055235892751, 1.4938946862488587, 1.5005513093323886, 1.504091565137907, 1.5062191301896122, 1.50723308388958, 1.507288731512581, 1.5067513329370403, 1.506009529188478, 1.5053144502810871, 1.5047608686366774, 1.5043505278278517, 1.5057681395074252, 1.5156671360318288, 1.4642357050787553, 1.328804302180349, 1.0994915852159097, 0.9616308274087315, 0.8994648628690904, 0.9083554901326204, 0.9981247006970843, 1.0197780221873798, 0.9955365828440463, 0.9938023332828294, 0.9950418390760862, 0.9951649572666283, 0.9951022163498978, 0.9950946305781759, 0.9950981963153389, 0.9950990007360584, 0.9950990795213179, 0.9950992378569707, 1.017119253453507, 0.957454099894261, 0.8220053221516276, 0.6400249624344633, 0.4519672717479262, 0.29049728630763155, 0.17067123187614328, 0.09198737853508454, 0.04560067948020436, 0.022116845848733656, 0.01066739270183293, 0.00513727052766951, 0.0024728901525444755, 0.0011901674984636005, 0.0005727760769532625, 0.0002756455188223564, 0.00013265169483293524, 6.383714169286266e-5, 3.0720931890655257e-5, 1.47841693781098e-5, 7.114772386469779e-6, 3.4239331958835335e-6, 1.6477449910767394e-6, 7.92967491473073e-7];

x2plot = [1.0, 1.1693204393002945, 1.092348952598085, 0.7101275515881297, 0.059399916226932845, 0.04626029495172327, 0.0455645813677555, 0.05284801420497194, 0.06931472268326216, 0.08946798593694463, 0.111103323272987, 0.13279527936302252, 0.15308832420130622, 0.17089644183709943, 0.1857698655190422, 0.19780191656641646, 0.2073667092747314, 0.21056967565908466, 0.19095091608794906, 0.3245020337524915, 0.6676689357816971, 1.2446599825306528, 1.5913352595002264, 1.7478891261196652, 1.7263028276423635, 1.5022143287369396, 1.448543253111473, 1.5095953112706582, 1.5142498608900314, 1.5114019397524534, 1.5112953709451284, 1.5116128060023797, 1.511759769797567, 1.5118529098034357, 1.5119322735019494, 1.5119969618348428, 1.5120483033301813, 1.4570361560651433, 1.606240249114801, 1.9449003463387, 2.399882311033357, 2.870049148014794, 3.2737389590659807, 3.5733129431347157, 3.7700273801428463, 3.88599651018131, 3.9447071318613185, 3.9733312027059133, 3.9871566916880687, 3.9938177194186366, 3.997024558170196, 3.9985680501545593, 3.999310882166257, 3.9996683690748642, 3.999840406439859, 3.999923197375075, 3.9999630394531067, 3.9999822130174096, 3.999991440145422, 3.9999958806284943, 3.9999980175774956];

Uplot = [0.35, 0.2699999904313764, 0.18999998137291352, 0.10999997448230449, 0.04539907071366808, 0.10367493085978326, 0.10327709091917717, 0.11529761190958211, 0.13848012688673858, 0.16185464485723203, 0.1823727925585447, 0.199304874045882, 0.2125036846273396, 0.22231517077252533, 0.2294010077774763, 0.2344771419222313, 0.23813775565051726, 0.23883749715155914, 0.22949800193603898, 0.28783159313172274, 0.36783149492996836, 0.44537053780033853, 0.36537053193355845, 0.28537052759173054, 0.2053705232764413, 0.12682792765066467, 0.20682787416365098, 0.25222064781513504, 0.22817736352312346, 0.22513677268342214, 0.2263371884222026, 0.2265187995313641, 0.22645134679156112, 0.2264339495713379, 0.22643229251475103, 0.22642931830598687, 0.2264262544501991, 0.20592615433278016, 0.28592616022836725, 0.3659261687059535, 0.4459261770956456, 0.5259261863232586, 0.6059261902808774, 0.6859261798293037, 0.7659260975790092, 0.8459205735152734, 0.8658449896428112, 0.8704684890936347, 0.8715378898346539, 0.8717852584175038, 0.8718401315333874, 0.8718508114094117, 0.8718512565991956, 0.8718493319885355, 0.8718468595187957, 0.8718442621650363, 0.8718416399998976, 0.871839020508764, 0.8718364186698746, 0.8718338545014419, 0.8718313621014645];

SetPoint = [1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 1.5032 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.9951 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0]  
t\_plot = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60];

using Plots

NFE\_sim = 60;  
plotlyjs()  
p11 = plot( t\_plot,[x1plot[nIter] for nIter in 1:NFE\_sim+1], label=“x1”)  
p11 = plot!(t\_plot,[x2plot[nIter] for nIter in 1:NFE\_sim+1], label=“x2”)  
p11 = plot!(t\_plot, xₛₚ[1:NFE\_sim + 1], label=“y\_sp”, linetype=:steppost, linestyle=:dash)

p12 = plot(t\_plot[1:end], [Uplot[nIter] for nIter in 1:NFE\_sim+1], label=“u”, linetype=:steppost)

fig1 = plot(p11, p12, layout=(2, 1));  
display(fig1)  
savefig(fig1,“file.eps”)

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Is there any solution to this??

Thank you all in advance!`Preformatted text`

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**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-on-converting-a-plot-animated/50017/2 "2020-11-12T06:59:27Z")

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There is [an example for GR backend](http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/gr/#gr-ref2) for adding data to a plot. If it is generic way the logic for overlapping plots is as follows

```julia
p1 = plot(....) #First series
p1 = plot!(p1,...) #Second series
....
p1 = plot!(p1,...) #Nth series

push!(p1, [(x1,y1), (x2, y2), ...., (xn, yn)])
display(p1)

```

I dont know how to `push!` one by one to each series. For other subplots(like `p12` or `fig[2]`) use their handle. I have not tested with other backends.

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**Author:** ![Amirrezz94](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/amirrezz94/32/19363_2.png) [@Amirrezz94](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Amirrezz94)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/help-on-converting-a-plot-animated/50017/3 "2020-11-17T13:01:03Z")

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Thank you very much @tomaklutfu!