saving animation to file

.gitignore

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-__pycache__
+__pycache__
+output

main.py

@@ -1,15 +1,26 @@
 from sim import Environment, CAMSReverseAndSidestepAgent, Direction
-import time
+import datetime
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
 from matplotlib.animation import FuncAnimation
 
+ANIMATION_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = "./output"
 STEPS = 1000
 
 np.random.seed(12345)
 fig, ax = plt.subplots()
 env = Environment((100, 100))
 
+start_time = datetime.datetime.now()
+start_time_timestamp = start_time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S%z")
+saved_animation_filename = "CAMS-replicator-simulation-{}.mp4".format(start_time_timestamp)
+output_path = os.path.join(ANIMATION_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, saved_animation_filename)
+
+if not os.path.exists(ANIMATION_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY):
+    os.makedirs(ANIMATION_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY)
+
 first_agent = CAMSReverseAndSidestepAgent(
     environment=env, 
     position=(50,50), 
@@ -29,6 +40,13 @@ ani = FuncAnimation(
     fig=fig, 
     func=update,
     frames=STEPS,
-    blit=True)
+    blit=True,
+    interval=1000/60,
+    repeat=False
+)
 
-plt.show()
+#plt.show()
+
+print("Saving animation, this might take some time...")
+ani.save(output_path, progress_callback=(lambda i, n: print(f'Saving frame {i}/{n}')))
+print("Animation saved.")