Auto-playing an animation once when a plot is loaded

Hi all,

I’d like to animate a plotly figure once, when it’s loading. The idea is to create an “explosion” effect for a scatter plot, where when the plot is loaded / produced, the plots explode from the centre and settle in their coordinates. It should look a bit like the second part of the animations here: http://mcaule.github.io/d3_exploding_boxplot/, but it should play once automatically when the figure is loaded.

It’s really just to make the graph more playful, and make it clearer that it’s a dynamic plot.

However, at least based on what I could find in the documentation, autoplay animations seem to be implemented with a play / pause button? Is there a way to make this happen?

The graph is produced with the python API in plotly and served with Flask.

Thanks!

Jan

Did you ever figure this out? I’m also searching for an answer but couldn’t find any.