napari-animation is a plugin for making animations in napari.

This napari plugin was generated with Cookiecutter using with @napari's cookiecutter-napari-plugin template.

It is built off of great work from @guiwitz in naparimovie which was initially submitted to napari in PR#851.

napari-animation provides a framework for the creation of animations in napari and features:

• an easy to use GUI for interactive creation of animations
• Python tools for programmatic creation of animations

This plugin is currently pre-release and under active development. APIs are likely to change before it's first 0.0.1 release, but feedback and contributions are welcome.

You can clone this repository with install locally with

pip install -e .

Examples can be found in our examples folder. Simple examples for both interactive and headless use of the plugin follow.

napari-animation can be used interactively by creating an AnimationWidget from a napari Viewer and adding it to the viewer as a dock widget.

from napari_animation import AnimationWidget

animation_widget = AnimationWidget(viewer)
viewer.window.add_dock_widget(animation_widget, area='right')

napari-animation can also be run headless, allowing for reproducible, scripted creation of animations.

from napari_animation import Animation

animation = Animation(viewer)

viewer.dims.ndisplay = 3
viewer.camera.angles = (0.0, 0.0, 90.0)
animation.capture_keyframe()
viewer.camera.zoom = 2.4
animation.capture_keyframe()
viewer.camera.angles = (-7.0, 15.7, 62.4)
animation.capture_keyframe(steps=60)
viewer.camera.angles = (2.0, -24.4, -36.7)
animation.capture_keyframe(steps=60)
viewer.reset_view()
viewer.camera.angles = (0.0, 0.0, 90.0)
animation.capture_keyframe()
animation.animate('demo.mov', canvas_only=False)

Unfortunately, not yet! Currently differences in the following objects are tracked by the Animation class

• Viewer.camera
• Viewer.dims
• Layer.scale
• Layer.translate
• Layer.rotate
• Layer.shear
• layer.opacity
• Layer.blending
• Layer.visible

Support for more layer attributes will be added in future releases.

Contributions are very welcome and a detailed contributing guide is coming soon.

Tests are run with pytest.

We use pre-commit to sort imports with isort, format code with black, and lint with flake8 automatically prior to each commit. To minmize test errors when submitting pull requests, please install pre-commit in your environment as follows:

pre-commit install

Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3 license, "napari-animation" is free and open source software

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.