On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote: > Note that blitting isn't always a time-saver. If most of your image is > animated and there is very little static background information, the > overhead of blitting will impact your rendering performance. However, for > most purposes of matplotlib, blitting will improve animation performance. Just to note here: a lot of time in matplotlib is spent rendering axes, ticks, and tick labels. So even if the plot elements can't be cached, animation performance can be *vastly* improved just by eliminating the drawing of those things. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma