[kushalkolar]

> the data is available on a machine in a cluster rather than on the local machine of a user

jupyter-rfb lets you do remote rendering for this, render to a remote frame buffer and send over a jpeg byte stream. We and a number of our scientific users use it like this. https://fastplotlib.org/ver/dev/user_guide/faq.html#what-fra...

> defining a protocol for transferring plot points

This sounds more like GSP, which Cyrille Rossant (who's made some posts here) works on, it has a slightly different kind of use case.

[zoogeny]

What is GSP in this context? Searching Python GSP brings up Generalized Sequence Pattern (GSP) algorithm [1] and Graph Signal Processing [2], neither of which seem to be a protocol. I also found "Generic Signaling Protocol" and "Global Sequence Protocol" which also don't seem relevant. Forgive me if GSP is some well know thing which I am just not familiar with.

1. https://github.com/jacksonpradolima/gsp-py

2. https://pygsp.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[bglazer]

Graphics Server Protocol

Forgive me for doing this, but I used an LLM to find that. They’re exceptionally useful for disambiguation tasks like this. Knowing what an acronym refers to is very useful for next token prediction, so they’re quite good at it. It’s usually trivial to figure out if they’re hallucinating with a search engine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43335769

[kushalkolar]

I don't think it's ready yet and I think it might be private at the moment, Cyrille can comment more on it.

But if I understand correctly it's a protocol for serializing graphical objects, pretty neat idea.