Roadmap

Ipyfastscape Roadmap

Improve TopoViz3d app

• Colormaps / Colorbar
• Clip Pane
• Show stratigraphic horizons, e.g., TopoViz3d(dataset, horizon_dim='horizon')
• Show sea level
• Realistic mode (e.g., terrain texture and skydome ipygany components, ipygany.Water effect for nice rendering, etc.)
• Improve animation smoothness over slow networks (early loading all steps data)
• Visualizing large data (see, e.g., pymartini or pydelatin for efficient remeshing)
• ...

Requires upstream contributions to ipygany.

Other visualization apps

• TopoViz2d: coloring + hillshading
• TopoMap2d: for georeferenced data, based on ipyleafet
• TopoMap3d: for georeferenced data, based on pydeck

Other app components

• DEM data extractor

  • Select a region interactively on a Map (ipyleaflet)
  • Choose a data source (e.g., Hydrosheds, data published on Google Earth Engine)
  • Get the data as a xarray DataArray/Dataset

• Fastscape / xarray-simlab model configurer and executor

  • Widgets for model inputs (sliders, text input, map, etc.), grouped in tabs / tree / accordion
  • Widgets to control (start / stop / pause) a model run
  • Could be linked to visualization apps (TopoViz3d, TopoViz2d, etc.) to show outputs (real-time or not).

Exports

• Export animated 2d or 3d scene as a movie, e.g., TopoViz3d.export().

App Linker

• Synchronize camera / zoom controls

A lot of examples

• Custom dashboards for research, teaching, outreach, etc.
• Not only based on Fastscape (could use landlab, LSDTopotools, etc.)