Why different backends inheriting from the Plot class? Why not using something like holoviews, which allows to plot numerical data with different plotting libraries using a common interface? In short:
- Holoviews only support Matplotlib, Bokeh, Plotly. This would make impossible to add support for further libraries, such as K3D, ...
- Not all needed features might be implemented on Holoviews. Think for example to plotting a gradient-colored line. Matplotlib and Bokeh are able to visualize it correctly, Plotly doesn't support this functionality. By not using Holoviews, we can more easily implement some work around.
spb.backends.base_backend
Plot
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.append
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.extend
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.update_interactive
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.colorloop
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.colormaps
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.cyclic_colormaps
spb.backends.base_backend.Plot.fig