On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, it is painfully slow, since it does everything in software, and there > are some corner cases where the zorder clipping is broken in the presence of > alpha transparency, and it doesn't do lighting, shadows, etc.... But it > does do enough for basic stuff, so we would be happy if you could resurrect > it cleanly enough for a toolkit. > I'd just like to add that having a *bare minimum* 3D capability in mpl is extremely useful to me -- i.e. being to visualize 3D data as a point cloud or a wireframe mesh. While teaching with python and doing numerical experiments in my research it's invaluable to be able to throw together a wholly non-publication quality 3D plot to get a quick idea of what's going on. I would imagine that others who use mpl professionally (and not necessarily only for public consumption) would agree on the value of maintaining this bare minimum even if there is no short- or medium-term expectation that it will develop into anything more sophisticated. Cheers, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
