[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built grafar, a cool visualization library
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Show HN: I built grafar, a cool visualization library
Author : thoughtspile
Score : 84 points
Date : 2021-05-03 19:42 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| hervature wrote:
| This looks great. Just a heads up, the vsolve section of the
| tutorial has comments in Russian(?). Otherwise, looks very clean
| and useful.
| thoughtspile wrote:
| It does indeed have comments in Russian, thanks! Actually, the
| entire source has comments in Russian, too -- I may need to
| sort it out someday.
| dkatz23238 wrote:
| Thanks for sharing and creating, I have not been able to find
| easy no-boilerplate 3d plotting in the browser for a while.
| grafar seems to fit this niche well.
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| Some feedback: show me the result on the front page. It's a vis
| lib, but you're not showing any of the visualizations (at least
| on mobile). The code sandbox is ok, but it has no context or
| description (again, mobile).
|
| Neat lib.
| thoughtspile wrote:
| Ah, you must've hit a script load race condition -- I thought
| that would be pretty rare. Should be fixed now, thanks for the
| feedback!
| krono wrote:
| This is awesome! More amazing still is that my Macbook 16" isn't
| even going into VTOL/Artic emergency space heater mode when
| playing with the demos!
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| These sort of graphs always manage to surprise me with these
| hidden patterns that the brain thinks it recognises but never
| seems to be able to pinpoint.
|
| Wish I knew what to do with a library like this in a personal
| project. Sadly, mathematics isn't exactly my biggest strength...
|
| If anyone has any cool graphs or visualisations with hidden
| patterns or meaning to share I'd love to see them. And to stay on
| topic and to not hijack the thread: bonus points if they were
| (re)created using OP's lib :)
| thoughtspile wrote:
| I've been trying to come up with a side project that would use
| it, make sense, and not involve just randomly sticking more
| features in there for around 5 years now =) Actually I open
| sourced it exactly for someone else to take a shot at it as
| well.
| mkl wrote:
| This looks neat! I think you really need a gallery page that
| shows all the kinds of things that are possible.
|
| Is there a way to make the background transparent, so you just
| see the page background behind the plot? I have a project that
| needs that, and for 2D plots we're doing it with JSXGraph, but
| for 3D we've been using GeoGebra so far, and the figures look
| like something else embedded rather than an intrinsic part of the
| page.
| thoughtspile wrote:
| You can style the container via CSS. There is actually a huge
| pile of examples in the repo:
| https://github.com/thoughtspile/grafar/tree/master/examples
| Some of them are for older versions and need to be updated, and
| I just couldn't find a quick way to slap a gallery into the
| docs, but I might get to it someday.
| SeriousM wrote:
| This is great! And the examples work on the phone just without
| any issues! Congratulations
| noofen wrote:
| Great work, I might use this in some of my apps. Beautiful and
| lightweight, keep it up!
|
| EDIT: Also, the link on your Github repo is broken.
| thoughtspile wrote:
| Not as lightweight as I'd like it to be (threejs is pretty
| big), but in some respects it probably is.
|
| Thanks for the heads up, I was too eager to get it out of the
| door -- all the links should be OK now.
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