How about mathplotlib ? I haven't used it (yet but am planning to play with it for visualisation). What are the other good visualisation libraries for python.
-- Vinayak On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Shiv Shankar <fsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a finite 2 dimensional plane. I have a set of co-ordinates, which is >> basically the movement of an object. >> The co-ordinates are derived from a set of equations considering various >> factors. >> After a set of initial research and tryouts i *quickly *decided on using * >> pygame* to plot the co-ordinates on a 2D plane. >> >> > Wrong choice. When a software exists which is the perhaps the most > powerful plotting program *ever* written, choosing a gaming library > for this demonstrates poor choice, unless there is a specific reason > for that - like for example, if you are already familiar with Pygame or > SDL. > > I am talking about "gnuplot" here. > > The commands are pretty intuitive. It gives you an interactive > prompt, like python. For example, here is how to plot > a curve for the function (3*x*x - 8*x) over x range of -50:50 > and y-range of -10:100 > > gnuplot> plot [-30:30] [-10:500] (3*x*x - 8*x) > > You can also do 3-d plots. > Here is the 3d plot of a complex function in 2d plane. > > gnuplot> splot [-30:30] [-10:500] (3*x*x - 8*x + y*y) > > Has any one in here implemented this sort of a program ? Which library did >> you use ? if possible could you explain why you chose the particular >> library. > > > Gnuplot is its own "programming language", but if you want a Python > interface, try gnuplot.py. > > http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/ > > > >> >> >> -- shiv >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > --Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
