3D animation of neural spiking data

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Hello Python-Forum,

This is my first post 

I have a very specific question - apologies if it fits into a different forum.

I have some data in a matrix M(i,j) (20000 x 300 matrix). Its a time-series matrix (20000 time steps, for 300 different traces).

I also have a coordinates matrix C(i,j) (300 x 3 matrix) of triplets of (x,y,z) coordinates.

How can I generate a movie where:
1. The movie evolves in time (the 20000 time steps)
2. The movie displays a sphere of fixed radius S(j) for each triplet (x,y,z) of coordinates. This position remains fixed in time.
3. Each sphere S(j), in time, has a heatmap that evolves in the movie according to column j of M.

For anyone who is wondering the matrix M pertains to neural spiking data, and the coordinate matrix C is the locations of each of the neurones.

Any help with this would be really appreciated. I am extremely new to python so be gentle!



lb5999