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Re:Show HN: Vizzu – Open-source charting library focused on ... by nsonha on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:31AM (#28903329)
> Microsoft's SandDance

Thanks for telling us about this. Do you know what approach/libary do they use?

Is this just the matter of tagging the elements generated by a normal chart library, then, independently "magic move" (to borrow keynote terminology) them into places? I'm impressed with the number of elements and frame rate.

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Re:Show HN: Vizzu – Open-source charting library focused on ... by breck on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:38PM (#28911378)
They wrote a great paper explaining their "Unit Visualization" concept/approach: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

IIRC their engine used to be their own in house WebGL code, but according to their GitHub ( https://github.com/Microsoft/SandDance) they are now using Deck.gl (https://deck.gl/) for rendering and Vega for chart logic. I do think it's not designed to be used as a library though but a complete studio like environment.

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