[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built grafar, a cool visualization library ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: I built grafar, a cool visualization library Author : thoughtspile Score : 84 points Date : 2021-05-03 19:42 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thoughtspile.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (thoughtspile.github.io) | 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! | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-03 23:00 UTC)