bonbon 0.4.1

A sweet and simple Rust library for generating static diabetes data visualizations.
Documentation

Overview

Bonbon is a fast, customizable graph rendering library designed for diabetes related data visualization. It supports glucose entries, insulin doses, carbohydrate intake, and manual blood glucose readings with configurable themes, units, and layout options.

Features

  • Flexible Units: Support for mg/dL, mmol/L, or dual-unit display
  • Treatment Visualization: Insulin boluses, carbohydrate entries, and manual BG readings
  • Customizable Themes: 6 built-in themes. (See Theme::builtins()) with full customization support
  • Dynamic Scaling: Automatic Y-axis scaling based on glucose values
  • Timezone Support: Accurate time axis labels for any timezone
  • Microbolus Filtering: Configurable threshold to simplify SMB visualization
  • BG Card: Compact status card showing current glucose, trend, delta, IOB/COB, and a 3 hour sparkline
  • Time in Range Card: TIR summary with a stacked band bar, per-band durations and counts, plus average, SD, CV and GMI statistics

Glucose Graph

The Glucose Graph is a full-resolution chart rendering glucose entries over time, with optional treatment markers (insulin boluses, carbs, manual BG readings), configurable Y-axis scaling, timezone-aware time axis, and dual-unit support.


BG Card

The BG Card is a compact 640×320 status card (scalable via with_scale) that renders current glucose, trend arrow, delta, age, IOB/COB, and a color-coded 3-hour sparkline with an ambient gradient fill.


Time in Range Card

The Time in Range Card is a 640×400 summary (scalable via with_scale) of how much time was spent in each glycemic band (very low, low, in range, high, very high) rendered as a stacked bar with per-band percentages, durations and reading counts, and a statistics footer (average, SD, CV, GMI, target range). Band thresholds, units, theme and the 3-band/5-band layout are configurable, and the computed numbers are available without rendering through TirStats::compute.


Installation

Add Bonbon to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]

bonbon = "0.4.1"

Examples & Docs

Some usage examples can be found in the bonbon/examples directory.

Additional documentation can be found on the docs.rs website.

Performance Tips

To achieve the best possible rendering speed, it is highly recommended to compile with native CPU optimizations. This enables modern SIMD instructions (AVX2, NEON, etc.), which accelerates the pixel blending and sprite rendering operations.

You can enable this by setting the RUSTFLAGS environment variable:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo build --release

Or by adding a .cargo/config.toml to your project:

[build]

rustflags = ["-C", "target-cpu=native"]

Benchmarks

BG Card build time at 4× scale (2560×1280)

Averaged across 8 rendering scenarios (InRange, High, Low, multi-status, mmol/L, flat sparkline, single point, no sparkline).

Hardware Avg. build time
Ryzen 5 9600x ~25.3ms

Graph build time (using native CPU compilation optimizations)

Benchmark Test Resolution Entries Ryzen 5 9600x Quad-core ARM Cortex-A72
Standard FHD 1920x1080 288 2.26ms 21.15ms
QHD 2560x1440 288 2.95ms 27.80ms
UHD 4K 3840x2160 288 5.56ms 59.26ms
Extreme 8K 7680x4320 288 19.66ms 218.67ms
High Data Volume 1920x1080 8,640 34.62ms 206.94ms

License

This project is licensed under the MPL-2.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

This project uses Material Icons by Google, licensed under the Apache License 2.0. https://github.com/google/material-design-icons