Bob Miller wrote:
>joseph toman wrote:
>
>
>
>>VTK is a full 3D graphing package with bindings for python, java, C++,
>>and tcl. The
>>rather large API might be more than you want to get into, but the
>>results are very pretty.
>>http://www.kitware.com/vtk.html
>>
>>
>
>As Elvira says, "It's Huge!" I downloaded the source distribution,
>and it took nearly two hours just to compile it.
>
>And I don't see a lot of 2D plotting capabilities. But I'm still
>investigating.
>
It's there, but it might be hard to find. VTK is definitely oriented
more toward visualisation
than toward 2D bar charts.
>FYI, about 10-12 years ago, I worked on a sci viz application called
>AVS, so it's interesting to me to see how the state of the
>visualization art has improved (or not). VTK looks pretty cool, but
>it definitely has a learning curve.
>
Isn't that the open source business model? Publish an API so huge and
convoluted that they have to come to you
for more consulting and/or documentation? ;-)
J. Toman
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