Hi Stefan,

In the danger of stating the obvious: Have you seen this older post on the mailing list? (http://main-discussion-list-for-the-graph-tool-project.982480.n3.nabble.com/Representing-temporal-network-data-td4027128.html ) On the surface of it it seems to deal with a similar problem?

Best,

Philipp

From: Stefan Vujovic [mailto:stefanvujovic93@gmail.com]
Sent: 28 September 2017 15:06
To: graph-tool@skewed.de
Subject: [graph-tool] Help with animating a graph

Hello Tiago,

I am trying to make an animation using Graph tool.

My data is preety simple, i have a interactions between two vertices and timestamps of those interactions, something like this:

time   vertex_id  vertex_id
1830     356          681
1835      12           590
1835      123          456

What i am trying to do, is to show all interactions per time step, therefore i would like to animate edges, display all edges (interactions) that happen at a certain time step.

What i don't get is how to loop through the list of timestamps. Should I even do it like this.
I imagine looping through the list of timestamps, where every time stamp points to a list of all the edges and then I somehow (unclear how) display them.

Also, what happens in the update_state function from this page https://graph-tool.skewed.de/static/doc/demos/animation/animation.html  is a bit unclear to me. Could you please help me somehow?

Is there any other resource/documentation I could look at, because a lot of the code from the example is like magic to me.

Best regards,

Stefan