Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Mar-2009, Arseniy Lartsev wrote:

| On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:33:59 Eric S. Carlson wrote:
| > I think that it is a very bad idea to make it a general requirement for
| > octave. That said, making these packages options as part of separate shells
| > or IDEs may not be so bad.
| Mayavi seems to rely on VTK so I'd better use VTK directly, for both 3D and 
| 2D.

I'm not sure that we want to add vtk as a dependency for Octave, at
least not by default.

I don't think that graphics is something that should be done in add-on
packages for Octave.  It seems to me that people will expect graphics
to work more or less the same in all versions of Octave, regardless of
the OS they are using.  That's why we have been working to add
graphics properties and an OpenGL renderer to Octave.  If you want to
help improve graphics in Octave, then please help us to improve the
existing OpenGL renderer.

jwe