User Guide

Work through these notebooks in order, or jump to the topic you need. Each notebook is self-contained and can be run locally in Jupyter.

The guide starts with the low-level WebGPU basics (shaders, buffers, pipelines) and then introduces the convenience renderers built for scientific visualization.

• Introduction to WebGPU from Python
• WebGPU Rendering Basics
• Built-in Renderers
• Colormaps, Colorbars and Clipping
• Interaction and Selection
• Compute Shaders
• Writing Custom Renderers
• Exporting to HTML

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