M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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??
Just checked ... ggobi isn't in Portage. I downloaded it and will be
testing it this evening. If it works, I'll file an enhancement to get it
in Portage if it's got an open source license. My recollection is that
it didn't, but I downloaded a tarball, so maybe it's open now.
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