Sounds like you want ggobi or Rggobi http://www.ggobi.org/ http://www.ggobi.org/rggobi/
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:04:15 -0700 "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matías Graña wrote: > > Hi; I'm doing some easy 3D plotting these days and I've come to this > > situation. I just need to plot a few dots in 3D-space. I've been using > > gnuplot for this, as it allows to rotate the picture with the mouse, > > giving a good impression of where the dots actually are. > > So far so good, but now I want it to interact with the python code I use > > to compute the position of the dots. There's gnuplot-py for this, but it > > seems to have the problem that once it launches a window, gnuplot does > > not listen to mouse clickings on it. So I can tell my python program to > > draw the dots, but then I can't rotate them as I could within a gnuplot > > session. > > > > So, I'm looking to either > > a) a way to have an interaction between gnuplot and python, or > > b) another program/library that can be launched from python and able to > > plot 3D dots and rotate them with the mouse. > > > > Any insight or advice is welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > Matías > > There are oodles of scientific interfaces to Python. I'm guessing there > is at least one that will do this. I'm not a Pythonista, however, I'm a > Rubyist, so I can't give you any names, or tell you whether what you > want to do is in Portage or not. One you might want to check is Sage > (http://sagemath.org/). Another is StatPy > (http://www.astro.cornell.edu/staff/loredo/statpy/) > > However, this is a very common mode of interaction in exploratory data > analysis, and just about every statistics package out there can do this. > xlisp-stat used to be in Portage, but it's in Lisp. And R is in Portage > for sure and is what *I* use to do this sort of thing. If you don't mind > learning another language, I'd recommend R. > > There is supposedly an R-Python interface available, but since I don't > know Python, I've never bothered to check it out. If you want to go this > way, do a Google search for "RSPython". > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
