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shkartmaz / cellular-magma

Visualizing crystallisation in a magma chamber using cellular automata & little to no actual thermodynamics

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Move away from pyplot #4

Closed shkartmaz closed 1 year ago

shkartmaz commented 1 year ago

matplotlib.pyplot colormap seem suboptimal for visualisation once ot becomes more complex.

Visualisation features reqiured:

Continious color for liquid phase with different temperatures, discrete colors for different phases --> at least two different data fields should influence the appearece of the cell
Maybe different symbols for different phases (dwarf-fortress style lol) --> customization beyond color required
Positively have no idea how to use an array of cell class with pyplot :(

Alternatives

PIL <-- can either save images or display using external software, not draw&update
plotly <-- easy animation, but requires all data before drawng
pygame <-- has in-built draw loop

Should support on-the-fly updates too

shkartmaz commented 1 year ago

pygame seems to be the way to go, at least once I figure out the ropes