On 2007-05-17 09:16-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > "Alan W. Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> However, your general comments on interactive PLplot struck a nerve with me. >> In my opinion where PLplot does very poorly on the interactive front is the >> severely limited interactive GUI devices that have been implemented so far. > > I agree, but I think it goes beyond just the interactive cursor. It > would be nice to be able to rotate a three dimensional surface plot.
I agree rotation of 3D plots should be high on the interactive wish list. Which reminds me another 2D (and 3D) capability should be to interactively change the world coordinates. So for a long spectrum, for example, where you are only plotting a small subset of the spectrum in the window you could smoothly slide the coordinates of the window right or left with smoothly varying speeds under interactive control to quickly move to other parts of the spectrum. We should also think about the best way to organize the new interactive code we are talking about since potentially all interactive devices would want to use that code. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
