I tried it out already, but didn't manage to save figures with 
transparent objects to eps format.

Kristen


Matthew Knepley wrote:
> I recommend Mayavi2, which has all the Paraview functionality
> but is open source and well supported. It is available through
> Debian packages and Python eggs.
>
>   Matt
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Kristen Kaasbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> So what do people in general do when they want to produce nice 3D plots ?
>>
>>  Kristen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Dag Lindbo wrote:
>>  > As far as I know, it is impossible to render volumetric data to eps in
>>  > a meaningful and robust way (since the PS format is based around
>>  > scaling vectors). Note that VTK, the underlying library in paraview,
>>  > mayavi, viper, only has "experimental" support for this (for simple 3d
>>  > scenes): http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGL2PSExporter.html
>>  >
>>  > and relies on a library (GL2PS):
>>  > http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/
>>  >
>>  > /Dag
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Kristen Kaasbjerg wrote:
>>  >> Hi,
>>  >>
>>  >> I have been trying to use Mayavi for generating eps figures of my
>>  >> solutions from dolfin, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle
>>  >> transparent objects.
>>  >> Is there anyone with some Mayavi experience that could help me out
>>  >> here ?
>>  >> Alternatively, are there any other nice packages out there for 3D
>>  >> plotting?
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >> Kristen
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