On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16:40AM +0100, Friedrich Romstedt wrote: > 2010/2/25 Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu>: > > Is it time for some re-thinking of the approach to 3-D? I am a bystander, > > but I have the uneasy sense that trying to turn mplot3d into a first-class > > 3-D plotting tool may be a misapplication of effort. Might the effort be > > more productive if applied to mayavi, or built on mayavi, so that the 3-D > > engine is already taken care of?
> Hmm, mayavi seems not suitable for our purpose, > http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/docs/guide/ch04.html > First, mayavi always creates its gui, second, one has to use an > intermediate vtk file. Don't know what about using vtk directly. What Eric was most probably talking about is the newer versions of Mayavi, that we tend to call 'mayavi2', even though we are now up to version 3, in particular the mlab interface: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab.html which is demoed in the examples: http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/examples.html I believe that Mayavi does take care of the task you are interested in. It has its limitation and annoyances, but a lot of people use it quite efficiently to do 3D plotting, for simple problems to very complex ones. Gaël ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
