On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:58 AM, John Hunter<jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Please let me know what you think, perhaps mostly about the >> user-facing API. It would be good to get that 'right' so that we don't >> have to change it in the future. > > You may want to take a look at what other popular toolkits do: > gnuplot, matlab, vtk. These are time worn implementations so we could > benefit from seeing what they've done for the interface.
I'd very much suggest having a look at Mayavi's mlab interface too. When Gael and Prabhu worked on it, they took strong inspiration in mpl.pylab, to try to 'keep the spirit' of MPL while implementing high level 3d support in mayavi, at a time when it seemed that MPL would not have its own 3d. Now that this is changing, I think it would be great if API-wise, MPL and Mayavi.mlab were as compatible as is reasonable. This would make code reuse across tools much easier. Reinier, I'm sure if you ping Gael he'd be happy to share some thoughts with you, he's very interested in code reusability (he may be on this list for all I know, but I did CC him just to be safe). Thanks a lot for mplot3d! Cheers, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
