On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Scott Collis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Morning all!
> I have some data (basically weather data) that I want to create some nice
> graphics (mainly PR type images) out of. My initial idea is to generate
> meshes from the data and import them into povray (ray tracing utility). Now
> matplotlib easily generates contours, is there a utility out there for
> generating meshes.
>
> eg L=isosurface(X,Y,Z,V, level)
> L: list/array of triangles where a triangle is len 3 list/array of len 3
> tuples (x,y,z)
> X: array or meshcube of the x oridnate
> Y:...
> Z:...
> V: array/list where len(V.shape)=3
> level: float, level of isosurface
>
> I can kind of envisage a way it could be done by generating contours on
> constant Z slices of the cube and then searching for the closest vertices of
> the contour below it to make meshes...
> I have played with MayaVI but have run into a few issues with it. (happy to
> receive recommendations of other 3D Vis environments compatible with
> Scipy/Numpy or that can read in NetCDF easily)
>
>
I'd still recommend Mayavi. I know that the mayavi developers would be very
interested in hearing what issues exactly you've had. I'd suggest posting
about them on the enthought-dev mailing list.
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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