perf: Speed up Solara space render

[rht]

This speeds up space render for Schelling with 80x80 grid size from 1.2 s to 80 ms.

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[Corvince]

Thanking for investigating the bottleneck and providing this fix.

While I don't observe such a drastic speedup on my machine, this seems to be a better default for mesas use case.

I am just wondering if it would be possible to make the format user-providable, so if someone cares more about quality (to right click and save for example) they can choose. Or maybe even generalize so any kwargs are forwarded to FigureMatplotlib.

[rht]

I am just wondering if it would be possible to make the format user-providable, so if someone cares more about quality (to right click and save for example) they can choose. Or maybe even generalize so any kwargs are forwarded to FigureMatplotlib.

Sounds good. See also #1797. Regardless, this feature should be in a separate PR.