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Colight

Colight is a Python library for creating interactive, JavaScript-based visuals. It provides a simple, composable way to generate plots, animations, and custom user interfaces from within a Python environment.

Essential Reading

Key features:

  • Seamless integration with Observable Plot, a layered grammar-of-graphics based library, for creating rich, interactive plots
  • WebGPU-powered 3D scenes via Scene3D — point clouds, ellipsoids, cuboids, meshes, and more
  • Compose plots, HTML elements, and interactive widgets using a simple, declarative syntax
  • Animate plots with built-in support for sliders and frame-by-frame animations
  • Embed visuals in Jupyter notebooks or standalone HTML files
  • Customize every aspect of your visuals with JavaScript when needed
  • A CLI for live-editing notebook-style .py documents and publishing them to Markdown/HTML

Installation

To install Colight, run

pip install colight