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why not use plotly? More advanced tool and more aesthetically pleasing plots

BeetleB 10y ago
And not free. I used to use them, but stopped once I exceeded the free usage limit. It was free to use on your personal computer, but I wanted to post the plots on my blog. Also, at the time, using them in the notebook had the same effect as posting it on a blog (in terms of their usage limits). I ran out just playing with Plotly. I think they should make it free for non-commercial use...
- detaro 10y ago
  I thought they open-sourced it a while back (early last year or so)? Was this before that, or is there some catch to it?
  - madman2890 10y ago
    There is a completely offline version available, and it's free.
maartenbreddels 10y ago
Fair question. I needed both 3d quiver and volume rendering, like this: https://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/test/hdz.html https://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/test/hdz.html Plotly cannot do that. And this scales to 1 million glyphs, i dont think ploty can do that either. Aesthetics we disagree on i guess :). Futhermore, it is build on ipywidgets, which makes interactivity a simple step, and it can be linked to say bqplot: http://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bqplot.html http://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bqplot.html So various reasons, thanks for your question.
- eurg 10y ago
  A sideline: stereoscopic rendering: I always wonder, why are they drawn for divergent view? (right plot: right eye, left plot, left eye). Convergent view (cross-eye) is much easier for large (full screen plots). Swapping both plots, (most) humans can easily see the stereoscopic picture without any aids, but it's more or less impossible for almost anyone to have a 3D divergent view for 3D plots where the eyes look away (wider angle than parallel). So the size limit for divergent view is _much_ smaller than for cross-eyed view. It is always great to see 3D plots in actual 3D, while regularly working on a notebook, and convergent view would make that quick and easy...
  - maartenbreddels 10y ago
    I made this with the the Google Cardboard in mind. So you are looking at stereoscopic rendering without aids? I had no idea that was even possible.

And not free. I used to use them, but stopped once I exceeded the free usage limit. It was free to use on your personal computer, but I wanted to post the plots on my blog. Also, at the time, using them in the notebook had the same effect as posting it on a blog (in terms of their usage limits). I ran out just playing with Plotly. I think they should make it free for non-commercial use...

detaro 10y ago
I thought they open-sourced it a while back (early last year or so)? Was this before that, or is there some catch to it?
- madman2890 10y ago
  There is a completely offline version available, and it's free.

maartenbreddels 10y ago

Fair question. I needed both 3d quiver and volume rendering, like this: https://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/test/hdz.html https://www.astro.rug.nl/~breddels/test/hdz.html Plotly cannot do that. And this scales to 1 million glyphs, i dont think ploty can do that either. Aesthetics we disagree on i guess :). Futhermore, it is build on ipywidgets, which makes interactivity a simple step, and it can be linked to say bqplot: http://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bqplot.html http://ipyvolume.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bqplot.html So various reasons, thanks for your question.

eurg 10y ago
A sideline: stereoscopic rendering: I always wonder, why are they drawn for divergent view? (right plot: right eye, left plot, left eye). Convergent view (cross-eye) is much easier for large (full screen plots). Swapping both plots, (most) humans can easily see the stereoscopic picture without any aids, but it's more or less impossible for almost anyone to have a 3D divergent view for 3D plots where the eyes look away (wider angle than parallel). So the size limit for divergent view is _much_ smaller than for cross-eyed view. It is always great to see 3D plots in actual 3D, while regularly working on a notebook, and convergent view would make that quick and easy...
- maartenbreddels 10y ago
  I made this with the the Google Cardboard in mind. So you are looking at stereoscopic rendering without aids? I had no idea that was even possible.