How to animate a Turing Machine

[darter]

I want to depict a paper tape with ones and zeros scrolling past a read head "eye". I am little stuck on the design for this. I guess my first thought is to have a square object that can move left and right. One of these could look like a frame on a tape. That would mean drawing a square and writing a "0", etc.

An array of these could be made to move, by re-drawing (?) but I think it would get kinda choppy. Is there some other way to think about this. Is this a pygame Tkinter project? I would like some ideas on the best approach.

Also, would I be able to "draw" these frames off screen and then quickly run them past the read head. Maybe hundreds per second?

[Larz60+]

You can do this with tkinter, but it's not trivial, use a canvas
you can simulate fade-in: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2744...-animation
I would think you could get good results by overlaying two images, and vary transparency on up, other down over a set
time period.
Proper animation is an art
do a google image search to find images with: "paper tape" encoding
here's some reading material: https://www.python-course.eu/turing_machine.php
also investigate tkinter lift and lower (can have multiple Frames ready)