Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie Q re: Lorenz attractor

2015-03-09 Thread Prahas David Nafissian
Dear Ben, Amit, and Ryan, Thanks so much for your input! Looking forward to finding the time to give it a go! Best, --Prahas On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Benjamin Root ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: Yes, absolutely it will work... so long as you do not use blitting. Blitting for mplot3d is

[Matplotlib-users] Newbie Q re: Lorenz attractor

2015-03-08 Thread Prahas David Nafissian
Hi, I want to create an animation of the Lorenz attractor, plotting each new point as it is generated by the equations. So we see the graph being drawn over time. Also, as it is being drawn, I want to be able to rotate the screen in 3 dimensions. Will MatPlot do this on a Mac (10.8.5)?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie Q re: Lorenz attractor

2015-03-08 Thread Amit Saha
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Prahas David Nafissian prahas.mu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to create an animation of the Lorenz attractor, plotting each new point as it is generated by the equations. So we see the graph being drawn over time. You will very likely need to use the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie Q re: Lorenz attractor

2015-03-08 Thread Benjamin Root
Yes, absolutely it will work... so long as you do not use blitting. Blitting for mplot3d is pretty much useless anyway (I think draws of the axes occur anyway regardless of the blit mode), but it is also broken for the macosx backend, anyway. Cheers! Ben Root On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:59 PM, Amit