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Almar's blog
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Almar's blog is a personal blog at almarklein.org about programming and business. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on how GPU line rendering and line shaders work, and for a piece on the future of Python plotting and visualization. Commenters call these excellent and interesting reads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
OK now try to do this in 3D with arbitrary projections and interactivity! And guess what, you'd create a rendering engine :) My earlier reply has a link to how GPUs actually push pixels to the screen. There are also some excellent blog posts on how line rendering is done: https://almarklein.org/triangletricks.html https://almarklein.org/line_rendering.html
Comment linking /line_rendering.html
on “Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library”Submitted Creating a Tiny Async Framework as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAlmar made blog posts about the line shader he wrote! https://almarklein.org/triangletricks.html https://almarklein.org/line_rendering.html A big shader refactor was done in this PR: https://github.com/pygfx/pygfx/pull/628
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on “Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library”Submitted What I learned about collecting payments for digital goods in Europe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot really. You can use widgets and redraw when the user changes something, but this gets clumsy quickly. Bokeh allows for interactive visualization though. Vispy[1] does to, by using webgl (but this require a running ipython kernel - so the plot will be static when exported to HTML). This[2] is an interesting blog post about the future of python plotting/visualization. [1] http://vispy.org/ [2] http://www.almarklei…
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on “Bqplot: Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks”