MakieOrg / Makie.jl

Interactive data visualizations and plotting in Julia
https://docs.makie.org/stable
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Glossary + "anatomy of a figure" page? #2729

Open jariji opened 1 year ago

jariji commented 1 year ago

Just an idea.

Makie uses a lot of terms in Makie-specific ways and I find it hard to remember how they're all related. It might be helpful to have a doc page with a glossary defining all the different things. Scene, Figure, Layout, Plot, Axes, axis, Observable, ...

And perhaps a diagram showing the components. Matplotlib gives a diagram showing the components in its model. image

jkrumbiegel commented 1 year ago

I agree, would be good to have. In Makie, it's a little less split into components, in matplotlib basically everything is a class but in Axis, for example the grid is just a couple of line primitives derived from the tick position and axis area observables