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animate a list of points on a unit circle

Posted 10 years ago

New to Mathematica, but I'm stuck on something that seems like it should be simple ... so I suspect I'm missing something fundamental. Here's the issue simplified. I'd like to plot 2 points on a circle. These points change with time, so I'd like to animate the graphic over a time series of 2.

Here are the points:

 m = {{{-0.755948, 0.654632}, {-0.625139, 0.780514}}, {{-0.821873,  0.56967}, {-0.766458, 0.642295}}}

m[[1]] is time 1; m[[2]] is time 2;

Here's my one-line program that fails in every permutation I've tried:

ListAnimate[Table[Graphics[Circle[], Point[m[[t]]]], {t, 1, 2}]]

Here's the error message for the program permutation listed above: "An improperly formatted option was encountered while reading a Graphics. The option was not in the form of a rule."

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks!

POSTED BY: Gary Lewis
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Posted 10 years ago

Thanks, Antonio! I appreciate your help.

The following seems to work fine:

ListAnimate[Table[Graphics[{Circle[{0, 0}, 1], {Red, PointSize[0.02], Point[m[[t]]]}}], {t, 1, 2}], AnimationRunning -> False]
POSTED BY: Gary Lewis

It looks like the only problem is that Graphics is expecting a list. Graphics takes 1 argument followed by any options, so all the graphics items need to be in a list as the first argument. Currently your Point is trying to be an option setting.

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