On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:

>> OK, but it wasn't clear from the example that I could plot a 3D array
>> of arbitrary data points. The way that you put together the demo plots
>
> As I understand it, it plots triangles and/or wireframe in the end.
> Currently I think our plotting mainly works with surfaces. How can you
> plot a 3D array of arbitrary data points?

E.g., by plotting a dot at the coordinate (x,y,z).

> You need to convert it to
> some triangles first, e.g. do you want to plot contours (isosurfaces)?
> Or do you want to cut a plane in your 3D data points and plot that
> plane?
>

If I have a set of scalar sample data on a rectangular 2D mesh that I
want to plot in the 3D I'd want a simple wireframe rectangular surface
plot. Can it do that?

-Rob

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