On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:01:43 -0800, alex clemesha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/19/07, Timothy Clemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the issue of 3d plotting, why is mathplotLib's 3d plotting not good >> enough? > You may have already seen examples of the 3D stuff that matplotlib can do > here: > http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/mplot3D > > and here is a link from the matplotlib TODO list ( > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/goals.html) > http://sda.iu.edu/matplot.html > > Basically the code isn't nearly as good (implementation, functionality, > speed, etc) > as the 2D stuff ... but oh how I wish it were ;) > > It's really not clear what the best thing to do is ... > a) write 3D code from scratch for matplotlib (a lot of work) > b) improve what code already exists (possible fatal flaws in existing code) > c) search for another compatible (for the notebook, etc) 3D plotting > library (still looking) > > Ideas/thoughts are welcomed.
I think the best thing to do by far is to create or modify an existing Java applet for 3d plotting. For 3d it is crucial to have realtime rotation to really be usable, and this requires hardware support, i.e., a java applet. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
