After presenting notebooks with a thesis committee member today I realized that it would be useful to serialize plots to disk so I that I can quickly bring them back up when a Flatiron cluster node decides to end my session 😆 .

GSP is a WIP but I'm thinking of something much simpler, at least for now.

• Each Graphic implements to_dict() and classmethod from_dict() that stores all the buffers necessary to create the appropriate geometry and material for that Graphic, this can probably be implemented via methods on corresponding GraphicFeatures.
• Apart from serializing Graphics, I think we just need to store the state of each PlotArea, i.e. cameras, controllers, canvas size.
• GridPlot holds info for the gridplot configuration and all subplots
• For ImageWidget we would need to store the entire 2D or 3D movie, so maybe ultimately store things to zarr instead of hdf5. 🤔
• classmethods on Plot, GridPlot and ImageWidget?
• Somewhere in the output file store the type of plot that needs to be constructed and the fpl version it was created in. Have a helper function fastplotlib.load_viz() that auto create the right type of plot
• No animation function support for now

I'll play around with this and note that it's very experimental.