[BUG] Rotating not working

[rabernat]

Thanks so much for this amazing package! I just tried it out with some Icechunk data and it worked great right out of the box!

However, I am having one issue that I don't know how to solve.

Describe the bug

I can't figure out how to rotate the cube. I assumed I could just drag it around, like in the screenshots, but that doesn't work.

To Reproduce
I just ran this example code in a jupyter notebook

import xarray as xr
import lexcube 
ds = xr.open_dataset("https://data.rsc4earth.de/download/EarthSystemDataCube/v3.0.2/esdc-8d-0.25deg-256x128x128-3.0.2.zarr/", chunks={}, engine="zarr")
da = ds["air_temperature_2m"][256:512,256:512,256:512]
w = lexcube.Cube3DWidget(da, cmap="thermal_r", vmin=-20, vmax=30)
w

Zooming works fine. But I can't rotate the cube at all.

Expected behavior

I expected that I would be able to drag the cube around to rotate it.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Mac OS 14.4.1
• Browser: Chrome 133.0.6943.99
• Version: Lexcube 0.4.23

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[msoechting]

Hi Ryan, thanks so much for trying the package! I'm glad it's working well with icechunk. Sorry about the user interactions, they are currently a bit poorly documented. This is the corresponding text from the standalone Lexcube.org:

• Click and drag on the black background to move and rotate the cube.
• Click and drag on the cube to interact with the data.

Demo Video

Does that help you? Or does clicking and dragging on the black background do absolutely nothing? In that case, could you please try a different browser? Let me know if I misunderstood or you have any more questions.

P.S. In the next weeks I will also finally publish a big update adding geospatial context to the cube as well as video recording, making the visualization 200% more useful (for global data especially) in my opinion!

[msoechting]

Hi Ryan, I just published v1.0 which contains many bug fixes (alongside major new features like the GeoJSON overlay), let me know if your issue is fixed too!