Better Lighting for 3D Surfaces
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
It would be nice if there was a way to get directional lighting, or a less matte appearance, on plotly 3D surfaces. The shadows and highlights are crucial for the eye to understand the surface.
Plotly on top, alternative below.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the 3D surface rendering code in plotly.js and compare its current lighting behavior with the reference images in the issue. Done means providing directional lighting or a less matte surface appearance with shadows and highlights that make the 3D shape easier to understand.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100