JuliaEarth/GeoStats.jl

Refactor `funplot` and `surfplot` into Makie recipes

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#576 opened on Jun 6, 2026

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Description

They are currently not recipes, which means that we cannot compose the visualizations in layouts easily.

I believe we can refactor these functions with the help of Makie's SpecAPI or add more methods with GridPosition, Axis as it is done in the pairplot function from PairPlots.jl:

https://github.com/sefffal/PairPlots.jl/blob/7d5b7806093eb1b21886285a11f68d68d4d4ae77/src/PairPlots.jl#L457-L476

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Study Makie's SpecAPI and the pairplot example from PairPlots.jl to refactor funplot and surfplot into recipes, enabling layout composition.
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JuliaMakie
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