2010/2/26 Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org>: > 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.
Wow, that's really impressive! I admit that adding 3D plotting capability to matplotlib would be like reinventing the wheel, and it would be a quite rectangular-shaped wheel. But, unfortunately, I need a physical rendering engine with light sources and reflectance/transmittance simulation from real measured data anyway, and the 3D rendering engine will be a byproduct. But, I think, it would be more easy to use Agg directly as the backend rather than going via matplotlib, although it may be an option. Friedrich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
