This project consists of a set of Mathics3 front-end demos, built around Plotly and Panel, that aim to demonstrate

• how Plotly can be used for high-performance interactive graphics rendering, enabled by the emerging vectorized graphics generation capability of Mathics3, and

• how Panel can be used for general formatting and layout.

These technologies are interesting because they integrate well into a number of environments:

• A work-in-progress notebook-style tool, m3d.py, that works with Markdown files with embedded Mathics3 code blocks. The Markdown is rendered as rich text, and the Mathics3 code blocks are evaluated and displayed in-place as interactive graphics. Editing the source Markdown and Mathics3 code is also supported.

  

• Panel and Plotly also work under Pyodide. A Pyodide embedding of the m3d.py notebook tools is in progress

• They also should support Jupyter and JupyterLite (Pyodide) integration (TBD)

• Integration into a command-line shell should also be possible by displaying graphics in a browser window.

Markdown + Mathics3 notebook

To run locally, you will need to have a recent development version of Mathics3 installed, and then:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python -m m3d m3d/data

This will show a directory containing a number of demo files gallery-*.m3d.

The requirements file is probably not up-to-date; let me know. Also, if the installation of pywebview fails, the program should still run, displaying the notebook in your system browser instead of popping up a dedicated window.

You can also run it in your browser under Pyodide by following this link: https://bdlucas1.github.io/mathics-m3d/. It works well enough in a desktop browser. It also seems to work more-or-less on my iPhone but there are currently a number of problems with fonts, tooltips, and grabbing the sliders without moving the page.

Demo minimal shell

$ python shell.py
> Manipulate[Plot3D[Sin[a x] Cos[y], {x,0,10}, {y,0,10}], {{a,1}, 0.1, 2.0, 0.1}]

This should pop up a browser window showing the plot. If it fails it might be because the webview package doesn't work properly on your system, in which case try changing the mode variable in shell.py to webbrowser