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Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend
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Shai Ayal |
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Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend |
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:52:15 +0300 |
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Jonathan Stickel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Plotting in Octave is pathetic, in my opinion. Among other things, 2D
> plotting should provide complete control over the style of data points and
> lines. Mouse control for things like zooming would be nice. Octave has
> experienced some regression here. 3D plotting should look great, provide
> text, and have mouse controls. Octave plotting is OK for quick plots to see
> what my data looks like, but I've come to realize recently that to get
> publication quality plots, I must resort to saving my data and plotting in a
> 3rd party program (gnuplot, matplotlib, mayavi, etc).
I must disagree with you on this point. I agree that plotting WAS good
only for quick plots I think that since moving to having core graphics
in octave, I can produce production quality 2D plots using
octave+gnuplot.
We now (at least from version 3.0.3) have full control over line
widths & fonts, and mouse zooming. The only thing I was missing for my
last "publication quality" plot was control over ticklabel fonts. I
think that with some more effort the fltk backend will be up to speed
and provide even those.
As for VTK, from the examples on their page, I do not consider their
graphics "publication quality", and we are building on established
systems by using OpenGL which does most of the 3D work for us
Shai
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, (continued)
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Arseniy Lartsev, 2009/03/28
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Michael Goffioul, 2009/03/28
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Arseniy Lartsev, 2009/03/29
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Michael Goffioul, 2009/03/29
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Arseniy Lartsev, 2009/03/29
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Michael Goffioul, 2009/03/29
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Arseniy Lartsev, 2009/03/30
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Przemek Klosowski, 2009/03/30
Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Arseniy Lartsev, 2009/03/22
Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend, Jonathan Stickel, 2009/03/26
- Re: GSoC project: new graphics backend,
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