I think it would be a shame to lose the current matplotlib 3d plotting
functionality, even if it's not ideal. I've found it very useful for
plotting small sets of data, and much more straightforward to use than
Mayavi or other vtk-based 3d plotting packages.
Having said that, I'm not volunteering to make the 3d modules work
with the new transforms :-/
Neil
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> Date: 2008年1月29日 15:07:31 -0500
> From: Michael Droettboom <md...@st...>
> Subject: Re:
> To: Johann Cohen-Tanugi <co...@sl...>, matplotlib
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> Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote:
> > is basemap deferred as well? It is kinda 3D no?
>
> I understand basemap is working reasonably well. But Jeff Whitaker
> would know better than I.
>
> > Second a color map or
> > contour plot is kinda 2D either...... unless I am confusing what you
> > mean by 2D : 2D in rendering or in data structure?
>
> I mean 2D in rendering -- matplotlib is fundamentally built on top of 2D
> rendering APIs, which makes doing a lot of 3D things more
> computationally expensive and less flexible than a dedicated 3D plotting
> package.
>
> > Anyway, I am probably not the motivated individual to tackle this work,
> > most of all because I do not know matplotlib internals, I am just a
> > user, albeit with coding abilities.
>
> Well, anyone can jump in ;) Unfortunately, I probably don't have the
> time for that now. I believe John Hunter has some more fully-formed
> ideas about where 3D in matplotlib should go and where the best path may
> be going forward.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> > Michael Droettboom wrote:
> >> Yes, it is probably a good-sized chunk of work. In the recent
> >> transforms overhaul, the 3d stuff was deferred, so it hasn't been
> >> updated to use the new "way of doing things".
> >>
> >> Just "getting it to work as it did before" is probably less work than
> >> "rethinking what 3D means in the context of matplotlib", which is a
> >> fundamentally 2D plotting environment. And there was some thinking
> >> along the lines of "why bother with the former, if the latter may be
> >> on the horizon?..." But I think it's going to take some motivated
> >> individual to step up and do either of these.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mike
> >>