Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Michael, John and Gael, sorry for the later reply (holidays and stuff...) On Jan 1, 2008 4:51 AM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm off with family for the holidays, so my response will have to be somewhat brief. I'm excited about the ideas you bring up... I first heard

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Michael Droettboom
Ondrej Certik wrote: * freetype (this could be rewritten using ctypes) I see that pyglet already has a freetype wrapper using ctypes -- it would be interesting to see if that could be used as a starting point. That could be used as a starting point. (Of course, ctypes is an external

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Fernando Perez
On Jan 4, 2008 11:55 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Agg (this could be optional) On the transforms branch, Agg is used for bezier curve realisation, whether the Agg renderer is being used or not. This is used for things like hit-testing and range-setting of path

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Jan 4, 2008 8:19 PM, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 11:55 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Agg (this could be optional) On the transforms branch, Agg is used for bezier curve realisation, whether the Agg renderer is being used or not. This is

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Darren Dale
On Friday 04 January 2008 02:36:06 pm Ondrej Certik wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:19 PM, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 11:55 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Agg (this could be optional) On the transforms branch, Agg is used for bezier curve

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Fernando Perez
On Jan 4, 2008 1:04 PM, Andrew Straw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent summary, Fernando -- are looking to burnish your visual neuroscientist credentials? ;) Gotta start somewhere, no? :) Now I just have to convince the NSF it's true as well... Back to grant writing :) The other issue I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Jan 4, 2008 8:44 PM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 02:36:06 pm Ondrej Certik wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:19 PM, Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 11:55 AM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Agg (this could be optional)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Fernando Perez
On Jan 4, 2008 1:00 PM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:44 PM, Darren Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would your users have to compile anything on windows? Matplotlib's windows users just run the installer, the compilation has already been done. Am I missing

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Boyd Waters
On Jan 4, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: Indeed, compiled code in a project basically forces you to have a windows developer in the team who can build the binary installers. These days with vmware/qemu it's not the end of the world (it can be done in a normal computer running

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Boyd Waters
On Jan 4, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Fernando Perez wrote: No worries, you misunderstood me :) My point was that a linux developer could keep a vwmare image around to produce the binary windows *installer* for win32 users, if there were compiled code around. Oh. That's all right, then. Sorry.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Straw
Fernando Perez wrote: It's probably worth mentioning that one of the reasons John chose Agg is because of image *quality* concerns. If I'm not mistaken (John and A. Straw will correct me as needed), the OpenGL anti-aliasing quality is positively horrible when you compare it to the quality of

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-03 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:40:26AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: I think there should be just one 3D plotting library in Python and imho matplotlib should do it. However, we need: * it should be pure python * fast and interactive 3D stuff * needs to work out of the box on linux, mac os x,

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2008-01-01 Thread John Hunter
On Dec 30, 2007 12:33 PM, Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should have gotten involved more in matplotlib development earlier, but at least now. I think there should be just one 3D plotting library in Python and imho matplotlib should do it. However, we need: Hi Ondrej, Sorry for

Re: [matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2007-12-31 Thread Michael Droettboom
I'm off with family for the holidays, so my response will have to be somewhat brief. I'm excited about the ideas you bring up... I first heard about sympy at SciPy and was very impressed. Let's try to collaborate in any way possible. I know that 3D in matplotlib already has some history

[matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2007-12-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi matplotlib developers, we are developing a symbolic manipulation library in pure Python: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ and we wanted to do 3D plotting. To make a long story short, here is a tutorial for our 3D plotting stuff: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/wiki/PlottingModule here is a

[matplotlib-devel] merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib

2007-12-30 Thread Ondrej Certik
Resending, the first try doesn't seem to make it to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ondrej Certik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Dec 30, 2007 7:33 PM Subject: merging sympy plotting stuff with matplotlib To: matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi matplotlib developers, we