This shadow will trace the movement in your animation by keeping every nth frame and will thus produce a breadcrumb-like trail. Note that the shadow frames will not be equidistant in space but in time (that is, if a point moves slowly the crumbs will be closer to each other). It is possible to modify the look of the shadow by changing the different graphic parameters in the data
shadow_trail(distance = 0.05, max_frames = Inf, ..., exclude_layer = NULL)
The temporal distance between the frames to show, as a fraction of the full animation length
The maximum number of shadow frames to show
changes to the shadow data, e.g.
Indexes of layers that should be excluded.
anim <- ggplot(airquality, aes(Day, Temp, colour = factor(Month))) + geom_point() + transition_time(Day) # Change distance between points anim1 <- anim + shadow_trail(0.02) # Style shadow differently anim2 <- anim + shadow_trail(alpha = 0.3, shape = 2) # Restrict the shadow to 10 frames anim3 <- anim + shadow_trail(max_frames = 10)