Smooth transitions

[cpsievert]

For some reason, transitions are currently grayed out:

I'm guessing we need to use something akin to Shiny.addCustomMessageHandler like ggvis does in order for the client to process messages in a logical order

Any experience with this sort of thing @timelyportfolio?

[cpsievert]

FWIW, the graying out isn't an issue when the duration is 0, but it'd be nice to avoid the graying out for any duration level:

[timelyportfolio]

I really like this concept, but I think pursuing this on the R side might be dangerous long-term. Has there been any discussion on the JavaScript side to handle transitions in any of the re- Plotly functions?

[cpsievert]

I agree. This is mostly for my own use/education. I also hope it provides some motivation to provide some more official support in plotly.js. Here is the only issue I can find on the matter plotly/plotly.js#142

I really like the way Vega approaches this https://github.com/vega/vega/wiki/Streaming-Data

[cpsievert]

This probably won't see the light of day since plotly.js will likely be developing an .animate() method -- plotly/plotly.js#550

Nevertheless, if might be useful to come back to some of these ideas...

[cpsievert]

Closing as plotly.js now has an animate method -- http://rickyreusser.com/animation-experiments/