moromis
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2 years ago https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/core/orthographic-controller With an orthographic controller, you can limit zoom to one axis or the other, which would be necessary for the labels/dendrograms/categories
https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/aggregation-layers/grid-layer https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/core/orthographic-view DeckGL might be an easy platform that could help fix some issues. Investigate if we'd have to rewrite or if we could just use it for the cells of the heatmap or something? Also look into performance, Nick said that it wasn't necessarily performant out of the box.