Robert Hanson wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Oh, good. I'm eager to see you implement controur lines this way, because I
> think it will be a general solution to the problem of contour lines we
> discussed earlier, and it will look as good or better than gnuPlot ever did.
> Basically you don't have to calculate the contour line segments themselves;
> Jmol just checks for all the pmesh or isosurface triangles and their
> intersections with the defined plane. So it's very easy to implement.
>
Great! I personally won't have time to be heavily involved in this in
the near future, but I am posting a message to sage-devel calling for
people interested in the 3d plotting to work with Jonathan on this.
> Possibly interesting is that the "state" of Jmol thus created actually gives
> a listing of the exact intersection segments.
>
> Also, that illustrates another new feature of Jmol 11.9, which is that the
> DRAW command now allows drawing of arbitrary line segments in a very simple,
> compact syntax:
>
> draw ID line1 lineData [{pt1} {pt2}, {pt3} {pt4}, ... ]
>
> draws line segments from point-pair data
>
> With that in hand, you should be able to do just about anything.
>
Great!
> By the way, I REALLY like the way you are using zip files to keep it all
> together. That is a great idea.
>
>
"you", of course, in this context, is appropriately applied to Sage
developers involved in the initial transition to jmol (like Robert
Bradshaw, or possibly Jonathan now)---not me personally :).
Thanks,
Jason
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