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