On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:03:00PM +0100, Cohen-Tanugi Johann wrote: > Nevertheless, I hate to think of matplotlib sending people to mayavi2 each > time 3D plotting is needed. Basic functionalities built-in would still be > highly desirable.
Absolutely. I think we need basic 3D plotting functionnality that work without any 3D rendering library, both for robustess and for simplicity. I used to think different, because I believe that this approach is bound to fail on anything but very simple problems (my experience with gnuplot :>). I fear people are going to try and pull too far the simple 3D implementation. Nevertheless, it would be great to have some 3D in matplotlib, for easier mixing of 2D and 3D (I do this with Mayavi2 by saving to a temporary file, loading the result with matplotlib's imread, and displaying it with an imshow -- ugly!), and to have backend-universal, robust, 3D plotting. Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
