How-to guides

Choose the task you want to complete. New to Datoviz? Start with the Quickstart.

Create and update a visualization

• Create a scene
• Open an interactive window
• Choose a visual family
• Add visuals to a panel
• Update visual data
• Animate a scene
• Use coordinate systems
• Transform visual data
• Map scalar values with colormaps
• Use sampled fields and textures

Layout and appearance

• Create multiple panels
• Link panels and controllers
• Add axes
• Add colorbars, scale bars, and legends
• Add text, labels, and annotations
• Configure cameras
• Use lighting and materials
• Control depth, blending, and transparency

Interaction

• Use panzoom
• Use 3D controllers
• Handle input events
• Pick items
• Probe image or field values
• Select and highlight data

Output

• Choose window size
• Render offscreen
• Save screenshots
• Export videos
• Record and replay frame streams
• Profile rendering performance

Integration and troubleshooting

• Use from C or C++
• Use from Python
• Use from terminal IPython
• Use raw ctypes
• Embed in Qt
• Deploy WebGPU examples to the browser
• Debug rendering output
• Diagnose WebGPU support
• Diagnose build and platform issues