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paulo-raca / highcharts-contour

This is a plugin for Highcharts to display contour curves
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Boost support #12

Open namirsab opened 6 years ago

namirsab commented 6 years ago

Hey there, thanks a lot!

Is there any way to incorporate support for the Boost?

paulo-raca commented 6 years ago

What is it?

namirsab commented 6 years ago

the boost module of Highcharts

https://www.highcharts.com/docs/advanced-chart-features/boost-module

The problem is right now if you have a heatmap with many points, the browsers suffer because it needs to handle a lot of paths. The boost module renders inside a canvas to speed it up

paulo-raca commented 6 years ago

That sounds like a great idea! I must admit I'd love to have better performance too -- In fact, I usually lower the chart resolution during 3D drag-and-drop to increase responsiveness, but this trick cannot be applied to all datasets.

I'll take a look into it, I got other stuff going on right now and I cannot promise anything :man_shrugging:

Is your heatmeap 2D or 3D? I'm guessing most of the work is already done for 2D, but maybe not for 3D?

namirsab commented 6 years ago

Our heat map is 2D. The problem is that if you have many points, and due to triangulations and stuff, it's an expensive thing to render for the browser. Each point has its event listeners, etc.

That's why we had to move to another solution