Hi, Thanks for the patch. How slow is it for you? I find it slow but quite usable. The main problem, I imagine, is that sympy is using OpenGL and thus your graphics card performs all the 3d -> 2d rendering whereas we do much of this in python/numpy. When I get a chance I am going to see if I can somewhat speed some of it up by adding an optional module to perform a few of these operations in C.
Jon. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Jonathan Taylor > <jonathan.tay...@utoronto.ca> wrote: >> Hi Reinier, >> >> Awesome. Those plots are making me smile! I also agree with your >> refactoring and have applied your patch to my git repository. >> >> I agree with you concerning the sympy plotting routines. I think what >> we have here is quite flexible and does a very good job of replicating >> the equivalent functionality of MATLAB. I think it would be a huge >> effort trying to make 2D plots and 3D plots look consistent if another >> approach was taken. Indeed, this is a desirable characteristic. In >> addition, the code is actually very short and easy to maintain. Given >> that matplotlib has had trouble maintaining 3D code in the past, it >> might not be a good idea to switch to a more complicated codebase. >> >> You should grab some of my more recent changes as I have added a few >> more fixes. Most importantly, if you reuse the same figure, the old >> event handlers will still attached preventing Axes objects from dieing >> and causing interactive manipulation of the plots to be very sluggish. >> Also, in terms of performance, I have found that switching to TkAgg >> from GTKAgg was helpful. >> >> Also, I think the original code from John Porter was under a BSD >> license. I am thinking of adding our names and the BSD license to the >> top of each file to protect it while its not officially part of >> matplotlib. What do you think? > > A trivial patch is attached to make proj3d.py work. > > I tried the examples and it looks great. However, it's pretty slow, at > least on my machine. The plotting in sympy is much faster. Is there > some way to make the mplot3d faster? > > Ondrej > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
