Animating traces on trisurf

[bob]

I would like to animate a series of traces in plotly. I currently have a trisurf and several traces plotted on the trisurf. I have been able to add a slider, so that as one slides from 1 → 2 → 3 etc., the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd traces are then visible (the trisurf is always visible). I would like to add a play/pause button and animate this process. Does anyone know if such a thing is possible at the moment? It seems like it should be, since the slider behaves exactly as I want–I literally just need to automate the ‘sliding’ of the slider.

I could put an explicit example, but its essentially the same set-up as here:

Combining trisurf and scatter plots in one figure

I see one can easily combine graph types as such: import plotly.graph_objs as go trace1 = go.Contour() trace2 = go.Scatter() data = [trace1, trace2] py.iplot(data) But I had no luck so far combining a trisurf and a 3d scatter as such: from plotly.tools import FigureFactory as FF fig = FF.create_trisurf() trace = go.Scatter3d() data = [fig, trace] py.iplot(data) apperently FF is not within the valid items list: Valid items for 'data' at path ['data'] under parents ['figure']: ['Box', 'Me…

Thanks

[empet]

@bob Your question was challenging and I tried to animate the motion of a simplified man along
the central circle of a Moebius strip, represented as a trisurf.
The animation works fine offline: https://plot.ly/~empet/14343

but online it generates an empty plot window: https://plot.ly/~empet/14344
I couldn’t find any reason why it doesn’t work online.

[bob]

This works great for what I needed. I can get away with an offline notebook. Thanks!