Michael Droettboom wrote: > It's important to note that we're not, as far as I'm aware, > considering anything lighting or ray-tracing-like yet. I'm not sure > that Phong shading actually makes sense without doing that. The > Gouraud shading we're in the process of implementing uses only > explicit colors specified in the plot, not any sort of > light-source-calculated values. > > Add perhaps more importantly, Gouraud is implemented in a number of > vector formats, including PDF and PS (though matplotlib doesn't have > support for that yet, that's coming...) > > Mike
Mike: I did add some support for crude light-source shading a while back. It works directly on rgb values - see pylab_examples/shading_example.py. -Jeff > > On 08/26/2009 07:06 PM, Nicolas Bigaouette wrote: >> Its great news that the 3D is receiving more polish :) >> >> After reading on wikipedia, wouldn't it be nicier to have Phong >> reflection[1] instead of Gouraud? >> >> Maybe it would be too hard, as the Gouraud seems to be implemented >> directly in Agg (from what others just said...) >> >> Anyway, just a suggestion ;) >> >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_reflection_model >> >> >> 2009/8/26 Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu <mailto:efir...@hawaii.edu>> >> >> Reinier Heeres wrote: >> > Hi JJ, >> > >> > Thanks for the examples! I indeed suspected the anti-aliasing >> as well. >> > I'll include an option for linecolors = facecolors soon >> (probably this >> > weekend); it seems to be a good solution. >> >> No, not in general. There are two problems: it distorts the >> sizes and >> positions of the patches, very slightly, but enough that it might >> be a >> problem in some applications; and it does not work with alpha != 1. >> >> Eric >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports >> 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - >> and focus on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >> on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
