Google Colab does not support interactive matplotlib plots

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
jupyter-notebook
Domain
data-visualization

Research direction

Start with the SULI 2023 summer school notebook on charge particle tracing and reproduce the behavior in Google Colab using %matplotlib notebook and %matplotlib inline. Investigate why the interactive backend produces no plots, and consider the issue done when the notebook displays plots that support interactions such as rotating 3D views.

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Description

In an iPython notebook, you can enable interactive matplotlib plots simply by calling

%matplotlib notebook

However, on colab this seems to result in plots not being made at all. If you use

%matplotlib inline

Then the plots appear, but they are not interactive (e.g. you cannot rotate 3D plots).

@namurphy for the SULI 2023 summer school notebook on charge particle tracing, this is a significant downside to using colab.

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