That sounds reasonable. Can I ask what it is that was primitive? Having looked through the code I see that a few shortcuts were made to minimize the amount of code written that makes it especially susceptible to changes in the 2D code. That said, it seems like it was comparable functionally to matlab's 3d plots, which is my goal for it.
Best, Jon. P.S. I saw your talk at NIPS 2008 this year. I have used mpl for a while now but that demo where you url.opened() yahoo finance and plotted it with those nice dates in 2/3 lines was very nice. ;) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:14 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Taylor > <jonathan.tay...@utoronto.ca> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I saw that 3D plotting was dropped from matplotlib since the last time >> I used it. Unfortunately, it is pretty necessary for some of the work >> I am doing. Thus, I have started the process of refactoring the code >> to work with recent versions of matplotlib. >> >> Right now, it is still in very early stages and is quite flaky but I >> do have some functionality. In particular, I am able to do a regular >> 3d plot, a wireframe plot and a scatter plot. If this interests >> anyone I am making the code available via git. Instructions are >> available on my website at: > > That's great -- a number of people were very disappointed to see the > functionality removed, even though it was primitive compared to a good 3D > toolkit. The problem was, we could never find a core developer who was > interested in taking it under his wing. Once you get this to a satisfactory > point, I suggest you develop it as an mpl toolkit. That way, it will get > installed with every mpl distro (the plain vanilla toolkits we ship, the > complex ones like basemap are distributed separately) but without the > implicit promise of full support until someone is willing to step up and > offer to fully support it. > > JDH > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
