See also the ZX-calculus, a graphical calculus for reasoning about linear maps applied to qubits (read: quantum circuits) [1]. The ZX-calculus derives its structure from categorical quantum mechanics and has found major use in several areas of quantum information science.
Wow, very cool. Personally I'm not really interested in trying to go through building something like what you've done for myself, haha.
I've come across Plotters before but last time I checked, the documentation was pretty sparse and I didn't really relish the thought of trying to parse though and tweak the examples at that time. It looks like they're gradually filling out the docs now, though, so maybe I'll give it another go.
What did you use for your plotter? I'm in science as well and I'm shopping around for a good Rust library to use for just throwing together a quick plot of some simulation data. Currently I generate my data in Rust, write it to a numpy format, and look at it later with matplotlib, but as you've said, 3D plots usually end up looking like a slideshow.
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13966