Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library

Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by theLiminator on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @01:19PM (#43334819)

Do you have any numbers for the rough number of datapoints that can be handled? I'm curious if this enables plotting many millions of datapoints in a scatterplot for example.

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Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by clewis7 on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:16PM (#43336033)

Yes! The number of data points can range in the millions. Quite honestly, the quality of your GPU would be the limiting factor here. I will say, however, that for most use cases, an integrated GPU is sufficient. For reference, we have plotted upwards of 3 million points on a mid-range integrated GPU from 2017.

I will work on adding somewhere in our docs some metrics for this kind of thing (I think it could be helpful for many).

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Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by enriquto on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:39PM (#43337872)

>I will work on adding somewhere in our docs some metrics for this kind of thing (I think it could be helpful for many).

Certainly! A comparison of performance with specialized tools for large point clouds would be very interesting (like cloudcompare and potree).

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