PLOTCON 2016: Mikola Lysenko, Future of 3D scientific charts using WebGL
Unidirectional data flow (as popularized by react) is a powerful and efficient paradigm for building complex user interfaces. This talk introduces regl, which is a high performance functional abstraction over WebGL. Because regl greatly reduces the amount of shared state compared to traditional graphics engines, it is much easier to write modular and testable graphics applications. We conclude by surveying some different patterns for building high performance visualizations on top of regl.
Mikola leads 3d graphing and WebGL open-source efforts at Plotly. Under Mikola's leadership, Plotly reached parity with MATLAB and matplotlib 3d plotting in under 2 years. In addition to WebGL graphics with Plotly, Mikola pushes the boundaries of JavaScript on the Web with the SciJS and stack.gl open-source projects.
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