Great. I applied your patch and pushed it to the web repository. I agree, that some more serious refactoring might be good. I have been leaving comments throughout the code with my thoughts on this.
Cheers, Jon. On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Reinier Heeres <rein...@heeres.eu> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was also a bit disappointed about the fact that 3d plotting support > was dropped. I'm happy to help out to get it going again, so here's a > patch to get surface plotting working; I'm busy with the contour plots > as well. > (We might want to do some code refactoring as well when it's functional). > > Regards, > Reinier > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Rob Clewley <rob.clew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Reinier Heeres > Waalstraat 17 > 2515 XK Den Haag > The Netherlands > > Tel: +31 6 10852639 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
