Alan Jackson wrote:
> 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".
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I haven't been able to get them to build ... is ggobi even in Portage??
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