Re: [matplotlib-devel] Protovis port

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Monday, November 29, 2010, Uri Laserson <las...@mi...> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have recently been introduced to the protovis visualization library, and I find aspects of it to be incredibly appealing for certain visualizations that don't fit some of the canonical chart types.
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> http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/
> Has anyone ever thought of porting the API from protovis and using the MPL backends to perform the rendering?  Is anyone interested in potentially working on a port?  I was thinking we'd initially start with the static functionality, and ultimately also port the interaction if there is enough interest.
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> Uri
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Those charts are certainly interesting.  I haven't looked at the API
(JavaScript?!), but at the very least we could probably add a few new
graphs to our gallery.  Maybe use their gallery to inspire some new
chart types in mpl?

Ben Root