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AI-generatedScattergl renderer default transition uncertainty after plotly chart_studio split
Plotly's core rendering pipeline does not prescribe an automatic transition from SVG-based Scatter to WebGL-accelerated Scattergl for traces exceeding a point count threshold, leaving the cutoff entirely user‑specified. This design choice creates ambiguity when scaling large scatter plots, particularly across environments where renderer defaults differ betwe
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