jbednar
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3 years ago Great idea! I think there are three ways that animation tools can be covered better on PyViz:
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An animation category at https://pyviz.org/tools would be an excellent addition. This list should be as inclusive as possible, listing all the open-source tools that are useful for animation in at least some cases. I'll sort it by total download count once it's submitted.
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It looks to me like it's time for there to be a blog post comparing the various animation approaches now available in Python OSS, and if you publish that somewhere, it can be linked from the https://pyviz.org/overviews page. In such an overview that's clearly labeled with you as the author, you can be as opinionated as you like; just describe the state of things as you see them, and other people can write their own competing blog posts (also linked from pyviz.org/overviews) if they have a different perspective about which tools are better for which approaches.
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It would also be great to have an objective top-level overview at pyviz.org/animation/index.html, similar to pyviz.org/dashboarding/index.html , pyviz.org/high-level/index.html, and pyviz.org/scivis/index.html. Such an overview needs to focus on being informative (e.g. presenting a categorization that can help people understand how the tools relate to each other) without making detailed claims about which tools in a given category are better, since PyViz.org is not meant to push any particular library over another.
I'd be happy to see any of these things appear!
s-m-e
I very much like the comprehensive list of visualization tools that you are providing. One specific category that is really missing is animations and/or animation capabilities of the listed tools. I'd make a difference between "interactive" animations (like GUIs or dashboards that can refresh every couple of milliseconds) and videos specifically. I am more interested in the latter.
I have been building an animation framework and - as a part of it - tried to document similar-ish and related Python packages. I'd be interested in adding this information to your list.