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

As far as I know, EPS does not support transparency.

Garth

> 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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