Figure.export() ?

[kushalkolar]

What do you think about an Figure.export() method. I'm not sure because Figure.renderer.snapshot() exists, and then users can use their preferred library for saving that RGBA array to an image. And if they want to deal with the alpha channel in a special way they can do that. But I often see people searching the docs for "save" and "save figure" . We can have a simple Figure.export() imageio that takes the snapshot and does stuff in a default way? Just saves it to an png, or a jpg by stripping the alpha channel?

[apasarkar]

I think we should support a "maximum quality" figure export of some kind. This can be useful if people want to demo results of a pipeline/exploratory data analysis to others.

Similar thoughts re: exporting a high-resolution video ("screen recording") for sharing with others. I know many people who would regularly use this, especially the video bit.

[almarklein]

Makes sense!

I think we should support a "maximum quality" figure export of some kind.

I thought about this. Could perhaps be an option in pygfx to render a frame with a higher pixel-ratio.