How to create an animation based on t, x, y and z data?

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Welcome to the forum @CM1 !

It’s probably slower since the combined plot has to be recreated every step of the animation, but this worked for me:

using Plots

N = 200

u1 = 20*rand(3, N)
u2 = 15*ones(3, N)

plt1 = plot3d(
    1,
    xlim = (-30, 30),
    ylim = (-30, 30),
    zlim = (0, 60),
    title = ["Some trajectory"],
    legend = false,
    marker = 2,
)

plt2 = plot3d(
    1,
    xlim = (-30, 30),
    ylim = (-30, 30),
    zlim = (0, 60),
    title = ["Other trajectory"],
    legend = false,
    marker = 2,
)

@gif for i in range(1, size(u1, 2))
    push!(plt1, u1[:, i]...)
    push!(plt2, u2[:, i]...)
    plot(plt1, plt2)
end every 10

The docstring of plot mentions this about extracting subplots, but I couldn’t get it to work in the intended way (creating a new plot seems to remove the previously drawn points):

help?> plot

...

  Extract a subplot from an existing plot.

  Examples
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  julia> p1, p2 = plot(1:2), plot(10:20)
  julia> pl = plot(p1, p2)  # plot containing 2 subplots
  
  julia> plot(pl.subplots[1])  # extract 1st subplot as a standalone plot
  julia> plot(pl.subplots[2])  # extract 2nd subplot as a standalone plot
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