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

Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by mhh__ on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @02:48PM (#43335759)

My hot take is that 3D plotting feels bad because 3D plots are bad. You can usually find some alternative way of representing the data

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Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by sfpotter on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:42PM (#43336282)

I work on solving 3D problems: numerical methods for PDEs in R^3, computational geometry, computational mechanics, graphics, etc. Being able to make nice 3D plots is super important for this. I agree it's not always necessary, and when a 2D plot suffices, that's the way to go, but that doesn't obviate my need for 3D plots.

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Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by jampekka on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:33PM (#43336180)

This is the correct take. There are almost always better ways to plot three dimensional data than trying to project 3D geometry to 2D.

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Re:Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plott... by bee_rider on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:06PM (#43335939)

3D plots might be neat if there was some widespread way of displaying them. Unfortunately we can only make 2D projections of 3D plots on our computer screens and pieces of paper.

Maybe VR will change that at some point. :shrug:

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