We have lost one of the greats of our community.

I first met John Hunter when he came to give a presentation about matplotlib at the Space Telescope Science Institute in 2004 (or thereabouts). I remember being blown away by how capable matplotlib was (even then), and stunned by John's …

In the last post, I outlined some of the architectural difficulties bringing matplotlib's interactivity to the browser. In short, there's a big chunk of code that lies between building the tree of artists and rendering them to the screen …

One of the big challenges that matplotlib faces as it enters its second decade is moving from a desktop app to the web browser client/server paradigm. This need has been known for a few years at least: SAGE and the IPython notebook are rich web clients and powerful ways …