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Is there a plotting library that uses webgl? I am only aware of Plotly that uses webgl for some of the graphs.

We are working on GPU accelerated rendering for Vega and Altair.

Is this open? Is there a way to read more about it? Issues/pull requests?

Have you seen https://github.com/jonmmease/avenger? Which is an experimental Vega visualization renderer in Rust using wgpu.

Bokeh has support for WebGL. We had to switch away from Vega/Altair when a project hit around 50,000 data points in a plot, but under ~5,000 data points Vega/Altair was still good.

Check out:

  DeckGL
  https://panel.holoviz.org/reference/panes/DeckGL.html

  ipysigma
  https://github.com/medialab/ipysigma

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