Megaplot is a TypeScript + WebGL engine for implementing high-performance, large-scale, interactive data visualizations.

Visualizations rendered with Megaplot are:

• Smooth — Visualizations should not be jittery or laggy and should respond quickly to user interaction. The API should make it easy for developers to carry out expensive operations without locking up.
• Beautiful — Elements should be superbly designed and rendered with the greatest fidelity afforded by the platform.
• Fast — Operations should be performed as quickly as possible without sacrificing the quality of the user experience.
• Big — The engine should be able to handle as much data as the browser can receive and process. Data points should be able to number into the hundreds of thousands without significant degradation.
• Accessible — Different viewers have different needs. Visualizations made with Megaplot should work for as many users as possible. While ultimately the appearance and functionality of a visualization made with Megaplot depends on the implementer, Megaplot should provide functionality to make it easy for implementers to make visualizations that are widely accessible.

Megaplot Benefits

Compared to other web-based, data visualization rendering options, Megaplot offers these unique benefits:

• Integrated Coordinate Systems — Many rendering environments assume a particular coordinate system (such as 2D pixel space or 3D world coordinates). Megaplot combines world coordinates and pixel coordinates. Objects can have positions in both systems, and these are additive. This allows the developer to achieve previously challenging effects such labels with fixed pixel offsets from particular world coordinates, or size minimums/maximums specified in pixels.
• Interactive Vector Graphics at Scale — Megaplot is designed to render hundreds of thousands of data objects while still responding to user input. Data is expected to change in response to user interactions.
• Ubiquitous Interruptible Animations — Sprite attributes are interpolated on the GPU for smooth animations frame-by-frame. Animations are interruptible, with most attributes preserving momentum between changes (no abrupt stop and restart).

In addition to those benefits, Megaplot offers these features:

• Scale - Render hundreds of thousands of datapoints.
• High Fidelity — Objects rendered by Megaplot have shapes and borders computed on the GPU with vector-graphic precision. No pixelation of curves and other shapes when zoomed.
• Declarative, Attribute-based API — Each Sprite has a number of attributes which can be set to define its position and appearance.
• Hit Testing — To support mouse/touch interactivity, Megaplot provides a hit testing API wherein the developer can probe for which objects intersect a particular pixel coordinate of interest.
• High-Performance Text — In a DOM context, glyphs of text are tiny vector images. While text with fixed coordinates can often be rendered quickly, text that moves can be slow. Megaplot uses a generated Signed Distance Field (SDF) texture for rendering glyphs efficiently at scale, commingled with other visual elements.

This is not an officially supported Google product.