Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-04 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: Esmail wrote: ... Tk seems a bit more complex .. but I really don't know much about it and its interface with Python to make any sort of judgments as to which option would be better. This should look pretty easy: Thanks

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-04 Thread Scott David Daniels
Esmail wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: Esmail wrote: ... Tk seems a bit more complex .. but I really don't know much about it and its interface with Python to make any sort of judgments as to which option would be better. This should look pretty easy: Thanks Scott for taking the time to

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-04 Thread Peter Pearson
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:29:42 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote: [snip] Here is a demo with pygame... [snip] And just for completeness, here is a demo with PyGUI, written in similar style. (I'm a PyGUI newbie, so constructive criticism would be appreciated.) from GUI import Window, View,

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-04 Thread Esmail
Nick Craig-Wood wrote: Here is a demo with pygame... Thanks Nick, I'll be studying this too :-) Esmail -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Esmail wrote: Hi all, I am trying to visualize a number of small objects moving over a 2D surface during run-time. I was wondering what would the easiest way to accomplish this using Python? Ideally I am looking for a shallow learning curve and efficient implementation :-) These objects

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Gökhan SEVER
It seems like you want to animate your data. You may want to take a look at Matplotlib examples or Mayavi for 3D animations ( http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab_animating.html?highlight=animation ) Gökhan On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Esmail

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Esmail
Gökhan SEVER wrote: It seems like you want to animate your data. You may want to take a look at Matplotlib examples or Mayavi for 3D I've used Matplotlib to plot points that were saved during runtime to a file. I wonder if I could skip that step and directly plot during runtime updating the

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Esmail
Gökhan SEVER wrote: I don't know how easy to use pygame or pyOpenGL for data animation comparing to Mayavi. Mayavi uses VTK as its visualization engine which is an OpenGL based library. I would like to learn more about how alternative tools might be beneficial say for example atmospheric

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread ma
Try out PyChart, it's a very complete and has a great interface. I use it to generate statistics for some of our production machines: http://home.gna.org/pychart/ On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Gökhan SEVER wrote: I don't know how easy to use pygame or

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Mensanator
On Jun 3, 10:53 am, Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to visualize a number of small objects moving over a 2D surface during run-time. I was wondering what would the easiest way to accomplish this using Python? Try Turtle Graphics using goto's. With pen up! :-) Ideally I

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Esmail
Mensanator wrote: On Jun 3, 10:53 am, Esmail ebo...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am trying to visualize a number of small objects moving over a 2D surface during run-time. I was wondering what would the easiest way to accomplish this using Python? Try Turtle Graphics using goto's. With pen

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Esmail
ma wrote: Try out PyChart, it's a very complete and has a great interface. I use it to generate statistics for some of our production machines: http://home.gna.org/pychart/ Thanks for the suggestion and link, I'm not familiar with this, but will check it out. If I can get matlibplot to work

RE: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread esmail bonakdarian
Hi Brian, Thanks for the code sample, that looks quite promising. I can run it and understand most of it - my knowledge of pylab/matplotlib is still quite rudimentary. I wish there was a good manual/tutorial that could be printed off (or for that matter a book) on this as it seems quite cabable

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Blais
On Jun 3, 2009, at 12:15 , Esmail wrote: Gökhan SEVER wrote: It seems like you want to animate your data. You may want to take a look at Matplotlib examples or Mayavi for 3D I've used Matplotlib to plot points that were saved during runtime to a file. I wonder if I could skip that step and

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Scott David Daniels
Esmail wrote: ... Tk seems a bit more complex .. but I really don't know much about it and its interface with Python to make any sort of judgments as to which option would be better. This should look pretty easy: import Tkinter as tk class Mover(object): def __init__(self,

Re: easiest way to plot x,y graphically during run-time?

2009-06-03 Thread Esmail
Scott David Daniels wrote: Esmail wrote: ... Tk seems a bit more complex .. but I really don't know much about it and its interface with Python to make any sort of judgments as to which option would be better. This should look pretty easy: Thanks Scott for taking the time to share this code