Re: Do we really need to replace gnuplot?

[Shai Ayal]

On 10/15/07, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15-Oct-2007, Shai Ayal wrote:
>
> | But are you willing to sacrifce offscreen rendering for them?
>
> Precisely what do you mean by offscreen rendering?

I mean the ability to produce a plot in a file (e.g ps or png) w/o the
need for opening a window or indeed using any graphical capabilities
in the computer. gnuplot does this easily, However OpenGL is meant for
screen rendering, so even if you wish to produce a png file, you must
first render the scene to the screen and then convert it to a png
file.

There might be a solution for this using OpenGL pbuffers. I'm looking into it ..

Shai