TL;DR
IPython NBViewer: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/zehsilva/18c28992796d9be99e16
Gist: https://gist.github.com/zehsilva/18c28992796d9be99e16
A couple of days ago I was thinking about the possibility of generating GIF animations using matplotlib and visualizing this animations directly in IPython notebooks. So I did a quick search to find possible solutions, and found one solution to embed videos, and other to convert matplotlib animations to gif, so I combined both solution in a third solution converting the animation to GIF using imagemagick (you will need to have it installed in your computer), enconding the resulting file in a base64 string and embedding this in a img tag. Using IPython.display HTML class this resulting string will be displayed in the notebook (and saved with the notebook).
I will briefly explain the elements of my solution.
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Eliezer Silva 