Series for visualizing a 3D Surface Grid inside Chart3D, with API for pushing data in a scrolling manner (append new data on top of existing data).

The grid is defined by imagining a plane along X and Z axis, split to < COLUMNS > (cells along X axis) and < ROWS > (cells along Z axis)

The total amount of < CELLS > in a surface grid is calculated as columns * rows. Each < CELL > can be associated with DATA from an user data set.

This series is optimized for massive amounts of data - here are some reference specs to give an idea:

  • A data set of tens of millions data points is rendered in a matter of seconds.
  • Maximum data set size is entirely limited by available memory (RAM). Even billion (1 000 000 000) data points have been visualized on a personal computer. Interacting with massive surface charts (more than tens of millions data points) requires a powerful GPU !
  • Scrolling Surface Grid input stream rate is virtually unlimited - even 10 million incoming data points per second can easily be processed. Application limitations usually come from previously mentioned RAM and/or GPU bottlenecks.

Creating Surface Scrolling Grid Series:

SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D are created with addSurfaceScrollingGridSeries method.

Some properties of SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D can only be configured when it is created. Some of these arguments are optional, while some are required. They are all wrapped in a single object parameter:

 // Example,
const surfaceScrollingGridSeries = Chart3D.addSurfaceScrollingGridSeries({
columns: 100,
rows: 200,
})

To learn about these properties, refer to SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3DOptions.

Frequently used methods:

SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D is designed for visualizing real-time data sources, where either new columns or rows are pushed in periodically.

For visualizing 3D surface grid with static columns and rows amount, refer to SurfaceGridSeries3D.

Hierarchy

Properties

_shadingStyle: ColorShadingStyle = _phongShadingStyle

Accessors

  • get draggable(): boolean
  • Returns boolean

  • set draggable(state: boolean): void
  • Parameters

    • state: boolean

    Returns void

Methods

  • Add callback function to be triggered when specified event is fired.

     // Example syntax
    object.addEventListener('click', (event) => {
    console.log(event)
    })

    Some classes also report extra information about the interacted object with the second parameter:

     // Most series share information about interacted data point
    series.addEventListener('click', (event, info) => {
    console.log(info)
    })

    Optional third parameter allows registering event handlers that will automatically remove themselves after first trigger:

     // Example this listener will only fire once
    object.addEventListener('click', (event) => {})

    Each class has its own list of supported events. Some events are from HTML standard (click, pointerdown, etc.), while others are own events from LightningChart JS (dispose, resize, etc.)

    To find what events are available, you can try following:

    • If your development environment has TypeScript enabled, just write addEventListener and see what possible event types the IDE suggests. These APIs are strongly typed, and even the callback event will be correctly typed.
    • Otherwise, open the class section in API documentation and check out which interface K type parameter extends.

    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Append values to the Surface Scrolling Grid Series.

    The series type can contain between 1 and 2 different data sets (Y values and Intensity values). This same method is used for managing both types of data;

    When addValues is called, the parameter is wrapped in an object { }, and one of (or both) yValues and intensityValues can be supplied.

     // Example syntax,
    surfaceScrollingGridSeries.addValues({
    yValues: ...
    intensityValues ...
    })

    The type of yValues and intensityValues is a number matrix. At first level, it is a list of samples to add.

     yValues: [
    // Sample 1,
    // Sample 2
    ]

    If both yValues and intensityValues are specified, then their length should be exactly same!

    Order of sample data is selected when the series is created;

    scrollDimension: 'columns' ->

     yValues: [
    [
    0, // column = 0, row = 0
    0, // column = 0, row = 1
    0, // column = 0, row = n
    ],
    [
    0, // column = 1, row = 0
    0, // column = 1, row = 1
    0, // column = 1, row = n
    ],
    ]

    scrollDimension: 'rows' ->

     yValues: [
    [
    0, // row = 0, column = 0
    0, // row = 0, column = 1
    0, // row = 0, column = n
    ],
    [
    0, // row = 1, column = 0
    0, // row = 1, column = 1
    0, // row = 1, column = n
    ],
    ]

    Example usage:

     // Create X-scrolling surface series.
    const scrollingSurfaceSeries = Chart3D.addSurfaceScrollingGridSeries({
    scrollDimension: 'columns',
    rows: 5,
    columns: 50,
    })

    // Push two Y columns into the series.
    scrollingSurfaceSeries.addValues({
    yValues: [
    [0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
    [0, 10, 0, 20, 0]
    ]
    })

    addValues can trigger warnings when used controversially (for example, data overflow). In production applications, these can be controlled with warnings.

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    • arg: {
          intensityValues?: number[][];
          yValues?: number[][];
      }

      Object with yValues and/or intensityValues matrixes to append on top of previously added data.

      • Optional intensityValues?: number[][]
      • Optional yValues?: number[][]

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Attach object to an legendBox entry

    Returns

    Series itself for fluent interface

    Parameters

    • entry: LegendBoxEntry<UIBackground>

      Object which has to be attached

    • toggleVisibilityOnClick: boolean = true

      Flag that indicates whether the Attachable should be hidden or not, when its respective Entry is clicked.

    • matchStyleExactly: boolean = false

      By default, entries are assigned a smooth looking gradient based on the component color. If this flag is true, then this is skipped, and exact component solid fill is used instead.

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Clear all values added into the series.

     // Example syntax,
    surfaceScrollingGridSeries.clear()

    This only affects Y and Intensity data. Other than any styles, etc. this will make the series behave as if it was just created.

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Permanently destroy the component.

    To fully allow Garbage-Collection to free the resources used by the component, make sure to remove any references to the component and its children in application code.

    let chart = ...ChartXY()
    let axisX = chart.getDefaultAxisX()
    // Dispose Chart, and remove all references so that they can be garbage-collected.
    chart.dispose()
    chart = undefined
    axisX = undefined

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Get component highlight animations enabled or not.

    Returns

    Animation enabled?

    Returns boolean

  • Get whether series is taken into account with automatic scrolling and fitting of attached axes.

    By default, this is true for all series.

    Returns

    true default, axes will take series into account in scrolling and fitting operations. false, axes will ignore series boundaries.

    Returns boolean

  • Get cull mode for this Surface grid series.

    Culling means skipping drawing of specific geometry parts, based on its orientation.

    'disabled' -> full geometry is drawn.

    'cull-back' -> the behind of geometry is not drawn.

    'cull-front' -> the front of geometry is not drawn.

    Surface series default cull mode is 'disabled' to show both sides of the surface.

    Returns

    Active cull mode.

    Returns CullMode3D

  • Returns

    Whether Cursor is enabled or not

    Returns boolean

  • Get 3D depth test enabled for this series.

    By default this is enabled, meaning that any series that is rendered after this series and is behind this series will not be rendered.

    Can be disabled to alter 3D rendering behavior.

    Returns

    Depth test enabled?

    Returns boolean

  • Get theme effect enabled on component or disabled.

    A theme can specify an Effect to add extra visual oomph to chart applications, like Glow effects around data or other components. Whether this effect is drawn above a particular component can be configured using the setEffect method.

     // Example, disable theme effect from a particular component.
    Component.setEffect(false)

    For the most part, theme effects are enabled by default on most components.

    Theme effect is configured with effect property.

    Returns

    Boolean that describes whether drawing the theme effect is enabled around the component or not.

    Returns boolean

  • Get state of component highlighting.

    In case highlight animations are enabled, this method returns the unanimated highlight value.

    Returns

    Number between 0 and 1, where 1 is fully highlighted.

    Returns number

  • Get boolean flag for whether object should highlight on mouse hover

    Returns

    Boolean for if object should highlight on mouse hover or not.

    Returns boolean

  • Beta

    Set icon of the chart component. This is displayed in legends and by default cursor formatters.

    Returns

    Icon object or undefined. Released as beta feature in v5.2.0 feature may still change according to user feedback and experiences.

    Returns undefined | Icon

  • Get the name of the Component.

    Returns

    The name of the Component.

    Returns string

  • Get boolean flag that is true when a Pointer device is over the chart component. In order for this method to work, the components pointer event tracking must be enabled (getPointerEvents)

    Returns

    Boolean

    Returns boolean

  • Get whether element can be target of pointer events or not.

    Returns

    Pointer events state

    Returns boolean

  • Get number of samples that have been pushed into the scrolling surface series. For empty series this will be 0.

    Returns

    Number of samples in the surface.

    Returns number

  • Get start coordinate of Heatmap on its X and Z axis.

    Returns

    Coordinate on axis where 1st heatmap sample will be positioned.

    Returns PointXZ

  • Get Step between each consecutive heatmap value on the X and Z Axes.

    Returns

    Axis offset between heatmap samples.

    Returns PointXZ

  • Get element visibility.

    Returns

    true when element is set to be visible and false otherwise.

    Returns boolean

  • Get surface grid wireframe style.

    Returns

    LineStyle object.

    Returns LineStyle

  • Returns

    Max X value of the series

    Returns number

  • Returns

    Min X value of the series

    Returns number

  • Returns

    Max Y value of the series

    Returns number

  • Returns

    Min Y value of the series

    Returns number

  • Returns

    Max Z value of the series

    Returns number

  • Returns

    Min Z value of the series

    Returns number

  • Invalidate existing and/or add new intensity values in the Surface grid. The location along scrolling dimension is identified by a sample index.

    Sample index 0 would reference the first sample in the grid, whereas 1 the second sample. This allows, for example, the modification of previously pushed samples.

    This method is also capable of adding new samples into the grid, which happens if the sample index exceeds the currently existing sample count (this can be received with getSampleCount method).

    If this method is used to push new samples into the surface grid in a manner where gaps form between the new samples and previous ones, the gaps are automatically filled by duplicating the previous last surface grid sample!

     // Example, modify last sample pushed to surface grid
    surfaceSeries.invalidateValues({
    iSample: surfaceSeries.getSampleCount() - 1,
    yValues: [[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]
    })
     // Example, update 5 samples starting at sample index 2
    surfaceSeries.invalidateValues({
    iSample: 2,
    yValues: [
    [0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0],
    [0, 0, 0],
    ]
    })

    Allows modification of Y and intensity values separately.

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Parameters

    • arg: {
          iSample: number;
          intensityValues?: number[][];
          yValues?: number[][];
      }

      Object with sample index and intensity or Y values parameters.

      • iSample: number
      • Optional intensityValues?: number[][]
      • Optional yValues?: number[][]

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Check whether the object is disposed. Disposed objects should not be used!

    Returns

    true if object is disposed.

    Returns boolean

  • Remove event listener added using addEventListener. The expected argument should be the exact same callback function that was supplied using addEventListener:

     // Basic example syntax
    const listener = () => {}
    obj.addEventListener('click', listener)
    obj.removeEventListener('click', listener)
     // Basic boilerplate of custom interaction when user drags on an object
    obj.addEventListener('pointerdown', (eventDown) => {
    let prevCoord = eventDown
    const handlePointerMove: LCJSInteractionEventListener<'pointermove'> = (eventMove) => {
    const delta = { x: eventMove.clientX - prevCoord.clientX, y: eventMove.clientY - prevCoord.clientY }
    prevCoord = eventMove
    console.log(delta, eventMove.clientX, eventMove.clientY)
    }
    const handlePointerUp: LCJSInteractionEventListener<'pointerup'> = (eventUp) => {
    window.removeEventListener('pointermove', handlePointerMove)
    window.removeEventListener('pointerup', handlePointerUp)
    }
    window.addEventListener('pointermove', handlePointerMove)
    window.addEventListener('pointerup', handlePointerUp)
    })

    Type Parameters

    Parameters

    Returns void

  • Set whether series is taken into account with automatic scrolling and fitting of attached axes.

    By default, this is true for all series.

    By setting this to false, any series can be removed from axis scrolling/fitting.

     // Example syntax, remove series from automatic scrolling / fitting.
    LineSeries.setAutoScrollingEnabled(false)

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    • enabled: boolean

      true default, axes will take series into account in scrolling and fitting operations. false, axes will ignore series boundaries.

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set Color Shading Style for series.

    Shading style changes the visual style of the rendering. See ColorShadingStyles for available shading styles.

    Use Simple color shading style:

    series3D.setShadingStyle(new ColorShadingStyles.Simple())
    

    Use Phong color shading style:

    series3D.setShadingStyle(new ColorShadingStyles.Phong())
    

    Configuring specular highlight for Phong shading style:

    series3D.setShadingStyle(new ColorShadingStyles.Phong({
    specularReflection: 0.5,
    specularColor: ColorRGBA(255, 255, 255)
    }))

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set culling of this Surface grid series.

    Culling means skipping drawing of specific geometry parts, based on its orientation.

    'disabled' -> full geometry is drawn.

    'cull-back' -> the behind of geometry is not drawn.

    'cull-front' -> the front of geometry is not drawn.

    Surface series default cull mode is 'disabled' to show both sides of the surface.

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    • mode: boolean | CullMode3D

      CullMode3D or false | true to disable/enable culling respectively.

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Configure whether cursors should pick on this particular series or not.

     // Example, prevent chart auto cursor from snapping to a series.
    LineSeries.setCursorEnabled(false)

    Related API:

    • ChartXY.setAutoCursorMode | configure behavior when auto cursor is visible.

    Parameters

    • state: boolean

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Beta

    Set override behavior for when this series is formatted to be displayed by a cursor. This can be used to alter and expand on cursor formatting done for a specific series, either by the library's default cursor formatters or even the users own cursor formatters defined on chart level.

     // Example syntax, add extra row to display a custom data property
    series.setCursorFormattingOverride((hit, before) => {
    if (!isHitSampleXY(hit)) return before
    const customPropertyValue = data[hit.iSample].customProperty
    return [...before, ['ASD', '', customPropertyValue.toFixed(3)]]
    })

    To use this with users own cursor formatters, you can use useCursorFormatterSeriesOverride:

     // Example syntax, define custom cursor formatting with support for series overrides
    chart.setCursorFormatting((_, __, hits) => {
    return [
    [hits[0].axisX.formatValue(hits[0].x)],
    ...hits.map((hit) => useCursorFormatterSeriesOverride(hit, [['Y:', '', hit.axisY.formatValue(hit.y)]])).flat(),
    ]
    })

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Introduced in v6.0.0, the state and definition of this API is not finalized. It may change in future versions without regard to backwards compatibility if there is significant cause from user feedback.
    

    Parameters

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set 3D depth test enabled for this series.

    By default this is enabled, meaning that any series that is rendered after this series and is behind this series will not be rendered.

    Can be disabled to alter 3D rendering behavior.

     // Example syntax, disable depth test.
    pointSeries3D.setDepthTestEnabled(false)

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    • enabled: boolean

      Depth test enabled?

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set theme effect enabled on component or disabled.

    A theme can specify an Effect to add extra visual oomph to chart applications, like Glow effects around data or other components. Whether this effect is drawn above a particular component can be configured using the setEffect method.

     // Example, disable theme effect from a particular component.
    Component.setEffect(false)

    For the most part, theme effects are enabled by default on most components.

    Theme effect is configured with effect property.

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Parameters

    • enabled: boolean

      Theme effect enabled

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set fill style of Surface Grid.

    Supported fill styles:

    PalettedFill:

    Look-up dynamic per-CELL color based on a look up property and a color look up table (LUT).

    SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D supports several different look-up modes:

    lookUpProperty: 'value':

    Color each CELL based on its INTENSITY value. Cell intensity values can be specified with addValues.

     // Example, enable dynamic coloring based on cell intensity data.
    surfaceGridSeries
    .setFillStyle(new PalettedFill({
    lookUpProperty: 'value',
    lut: new LUT({
    interpolate: true,
    steps: [
    { value: 0, color: ColorRGBA(0, 0, 0) },
    { value: 100, color: ColorRGBA(255, 0, 0) }
    ]
    })
    }))

    Note, Surface grid series doesn't currently support color (fallback color).

    lookUpProperty: 'x' | 'y' | 'z':

    Color each CELL based on one of its axis coordinates.

     // Example, enable dynamic coloring based on cell Y coordinate.
    surfaceGridSeries
    .setFillStyle(new PalettedFill({
    lookUpProperty: 'y',
    lut: new LUT({
    interpolate: true,
    steps: [
    { value: 0, color: ColorRGBA(0, 0, 0) },
    { value: 100, color: ColorRGBA(255, 0, 0) }
    ]
    })
    }))

    Intensity based dynamic coloring can further be configured with setIntensityInterpolation to enable or disable automatic interpolation of Intensity values. This is enabled by default.

    SolidFill:

    Solid color for entire Surface Grid fill.

     // Example, solid surface grid fill.
    heatmapSeries.setFillStyle(new SolidFill({ color: ColorRGBA(255, 0, 0) }))

    If only wireframe rendering is desired, using emptyFill is recommended for better performance.

    emptyFill:

    Disables Surface Grid fill.

     // Example, hide heatmap fill and show wireframe.
    heatmapSeries
    .setFillStyle(emptyFill)
    .setWireframeStyle(new SolidFill({ color: ColorRGBA(255, 0, 0) }))

    Related functionality:

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Parameters

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set state of component highlighting.

     // Example usage

    component.setHighlight(true)

    component.setHighlight(0.5)

    If highlight animations are enabled (which is true by default), the transition will be animated. As long as the component is highlighted, the active highlight intensity will be animated continuously between 0 and the configured value. Highlight animations can be disabled with setAnimationHighlight

    Returns

    Object itself

    Parameters

    • highlight: number | boolean

      Boolean or number between 0 and 1, where 1 is fully highlighted.

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Beta

    Set icon of the chart component. This is displayed in legends and by default cursor formatters.

     const image = new Image()
    image.src = 'image.png'
    const icon = chart.engine.addCustomIcon(image)
    ChartComponent.setIcon(icon)

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Released as beta feature in v5.2.0 feature may still change according to user feedback and experiences.
    

    Parameters

    • icon: undefined | Icon

      Icon

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set surface intensity interpolation mode.

    This only affects surface grid with INTENSITY based dynamic coloring, see setFillStyle for more information.

    This feature is enabled by default ('bilinear').

    'disabled' or undefined: Interpolation disabled; draw data exactly as it is.

    'bilinear': Each PIXEL is colored based on an Bi-linearly interpolated intensity value based on the 4 closest real intensity values.

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface.

    Parameters

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set whether element can be target of pointer events or not.

    Disabling pointer events means that the objects below this component can be interacted through it.

    Returns

    Object itself for fluent interface

    Parameters

    • state: boolean

      Specifies state of mouse interactions

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Set wireframe style of Surface Grid.

    Wireframe consists of thin lines drawn around the borders of each surface CELL. They are generally enabled to improve the perception of surface shape.

    Wireframe style is defined as LineStyle.

     // Example 1, enable wireframe.
    heatmapSeries.setWireframeStyle(new SolidLine({
    thickness: 1,
    fillStyle: new SolidFill({ color: ColorRGBA(255, 0, 0) })
    }))
     // Example 2, disable wireframe.
    heatmapSeries.setWireframeStyle(emptyLine)

    At this time, only solid wireframe rendering is supported. In future, this could be extended to coloring wireframe based on some dynamic properties (X, Y, Z, Intensity) similarly as surface fill.

    Related functionality:

    Returns

    Object itself.

    Parameters

    Returns SurfaceScrollingGridSeries3D

  • Match legend entry style to reflect components own style.

    Parameters

    • entry: LegendBoxEntry<UIBackground>
    • matchStyleExactly: boolean = false

      By default, entries are assigned a smooth looking gradient based on the component color. If this flag is true, then this is skipped, and exact component solid fill is used instead.

    Returns void