On Jan 22, 2007, at 7:34 AM, William Stein wrote: > 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
We did some investigation on this over the break and right now are leaning towards using an applet to wrap http://www.xj3d.org/ , and output plots, etc as vrml/x3d files. This would allow someone to use their own preferred VRML viewer in the future if they want too. I already have some of the work done. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
