Make curves appear one by one in one plot in a beamer presentation

Question

I want to put one figure with multiple curves in my beamer presentation, but I want to put a pause between the curves. It means that the curves appear in the plot one by one. The \pause option does not work. How can I do this?

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}

\addplot table {error1 };
\pause

\addplot table {error3};
\pause

\addplot table {error5};
\pause

\end{axis}
\begin{document}

This is probably not so relevant, because this is an old question that has answers already, but it seems to me that it is a duplicate of https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/6632/168128. — astoeriko, Dec 08 '22 at 18:54

score 22 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 05 '20 at 19:52

22

Another option is using the visible on style:

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\tikzset{
    invisible/.style={opacity=0},
    visible on/.style={alt={#1{}{invisible}}},
    alt/.code args={<#1>#2#3}{%
      \alt<#1>{\pgfkeysalso{#2}}{\pgfkeysalso{#3}} % \pgfkeysalso doesn't change the path
    },
  }
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot+[visible on=<1->] coordinates {(0,0) (5,3)};
\addplot+[visible on=<2->] coordinates {(0,-2) (5,-3)};
\addplot+[visible on=<3->] coordinates {(0,2) (5,0)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

An animation of the result:

Note that if you want to show the same graph on multiple slides seperated by comma, you must write the argument in curly brackets: {<1,3>}

edited Nov 05 '20 at 19:52

Thorbjørn E. K. Christensen

2,540

answered Sep 25 '15 at 20:56

Gonzalo Medina

505,128

Is it possible to have a variation of this style which also hides the legend entry until it is visible? – bonanza Sep 18 '16 at 18:15
What happens if you add legends to each curve? – aaragon Jun 09 '17 at 08:27
5

Note that the styles invisible, visible on, and alt are now in their own TikZ library overlay-beamer-styles. – Andrew Stacey Nov 05 '20 at 20:04

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '15 at 20:55

13

Using \only seems to work.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot {rnd};
\only<2->{
\addplot {rnd};}
\only<3>{
\addplot {rnd};}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

answered Sep 25 '15 at 20:55

Torbjørn T.

206,688

3

Problem with this: rather than just being invisible, the plot will not actually be drawn in earlier frames, which can cause problems with the sizing of the picture. – Jordan Mitchell Barrett Aug 07 '20 at 09:46

Make curves appear one by one in one plot in a beamer presentation

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