Thanks for the detailed answers. They were very helpful. This sort of thing where you have data -> calculated abstraction -> recover data, is so frequent that having a generic way of building this sort of tool will be hugely valuable. Recovering data by text is useful, but there are times where graphics is necessary. The nature of my question is if you have the data and a calculated abstraction can you hotwire your stuff to do something similar to what you are doing. After your infrastructure work, it is just a matter of time until others add more interfaces. This is really exciting stuff. Thanks
On Monday, September 14, 2015 at 10:15:04 AM UTC-5, Tim Holy wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Immerse package: > https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Immerse.jl > > Immerse is designed to add a new layer of interactivity to Gadfly plots. > > I've also posted two tutorial videos: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urM4SY92QTI > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ic5vj9hD-w > > The second video in particular has "the fun stuff," and shows some > features > I've long wished for in Julia: really good ways to go backwards from > plotted > objects to the data underlying each object, so that one can figure out > what's > going on in a complex, multidimensional data set. > > It probably goes without saying, but Immerse is so new that you should > expect > a certain amount of API churn as it evolves. In particular, I've already > changed one of the `hit` callback arguments since I filmed that second > video > this morning :-). However, I personally find that it's already quite > functional > and darned handy; I encourage you to start making use of it and see > whether it > makes a difference in your work. > > Despite my attempts to upload these videos to the JuliaLanguage youtube > channel, these seem to be going to my personal channel (which I didn't > even > have, before now...). If anyone has any tips about how to transfer them, > I'd > be grateful. > > Best, > --Tim > >
