# Displaying a 3D scatter with a lot of data crashes
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plots
**Created:** [October 24, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352 "2023-10-24T15:40:19Z")
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### Author:  [@yuvalw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuvalw)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352/1 "2023-10-24T15:40:19Z")
Hello,
Is there an efficient way to do this? I’m having crashes with even 1000 data points. I noticed that using different colors for data points (i.e. `zcolor`) makes the figure 10x heavier upon saving.
I would like to be able to rotate the image, like it is in `plotly`, rather than a static scatter. I thought my computer would be able to display heavy plots:
32 × 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i9-13900K
128 GB RAM
NVIDIA RTX A4500, 20 GB
Can you say what would be a reasonable number of points to handle?
Would Makie be better at this?
```julia
using Plots
plotly()
n = 500
scatter3d(eachcol(rand(n,3))..., zcolor=rand(n))
```
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352/2 "2023-10-24T16:37:33Z")
Did you try the plotlyjs() backend?
Also, many people use Makie.jl nowadays for interactive 3D visualization:
> **[Home · Makie](https://docs.makie.org/stable/)**
>
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2023, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352/3 "2023-10-24T21:34:33Z")
It works OK in the MS Edge browser and with `n = 10_000` points in my small Win11 laptop:
```julia
Device name XPS13-7390
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1065G7 CPU @ 1.30GHz 1.50 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB
```
However, it takes more than 30 s to render the plot, and until then we need to click `Wait` every time a window pops up saying `This page isn't responding`.
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### Author:  [@yuvalw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuvalw)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/displaying-a-3d-scatter-with-a-lot-of-data-crashes/105352/4 "2023-10-29T09:37:36Z")
I could not make `plotlyjs` to work. I’m new to Makie, but I tried using WGLMakie, using the following code (Not sure if this is the best way to do it):
```julia
using JSServe
using WGLMakie
Page(exportable=true, offline=true)
n = 5000
x = rand(n)
y = rand(n)
z = rand(n)
c = rand(n)
f = Figure()
a = WGLMakie.scatter(x, y, z, color=c)
WGLMakie.save("test1.html", a.figure)
```
Overall, it seems that the HTML file does not scale with `n` in either size or time to render, unlike Plotly, which seems to scale linearly with `n`, so in that sense it’s great.
The only thing I find missing is that in Plotly, by default I can click on labels in the legend to hide the corresponding series. Is it easily done in Makie as well?
Thanks