Katalyst: Plate visualization slow or unresponsive for very large plates

Description

• When opening very large plates (e.g., 1536‑well or multiple stacked plates) in Katalyst, users experience:
  • Slow loading or lag when zooming/panning.
  • Browser unresponsiveness, especially on older machines.
• Smaller plates (e.g., 96‑ or 384‑well) work fine.

Solution

• Client‑side mitigation:
  • Use modern browsers and sufficiently powerful client machines (CPU, RAM, GPU).
  • Close other heavy browser tabs or applications when working with large plates.
• Katalyst configuration:
  • Where supported, reduce the amount of information rendered at once:
    • Disable non‑essential overlays (e.g., complex labels) by default.
    • Use zoomed or paginated views instead of rendering the entire plate at full detail.
• Workflow design:
  • Consider splitting extremely large plates into logical sub‑plates or panels if possible.
  • Use filters and table views to inspect subsets of wells rather than relying solely on full‑plate visualization.
• If performance remains problematic:
  • Capture performance metrics and your browsers (whether Chrome, Edge, Firefox) developer tools, console output.
  • Provide experiment examples to support so rendering performance can be profiled and optimized in future releases.