Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D plots

[Barry W. <bar...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Etienne Gaudrain <et....@fr...> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the link, and for the suggestions!
> I will probably give a go to Mayavi2, but given how heavy it seems to be
> (compared to matplotlib) it probably requires some custom wrapping...
> which means again a lot time investment... thanks for the tips anyway!

Etienne,

I believe that Mayavi2 has a matlab-like interface (called mlab, I
think) which offers a much higher-level (and more command-line
friendly) API. I'm not a Mayavi expert by any streach, but you may be
able to find many helpful folks on the enthought-dev list
(https://mail.enthought.com/mailman/listinfo/enthought-dev)

cheers,
Barry

>
> Cheers,
> -Etienne
>
>
>
> Gary Ruben wrote:
>> Hi Etienne,
>>
>> Sorry to hear about your disappointment. You can read about the
>> attempt to resurrect the 3D plotting capabilities here:
>> <http://www.nabble.com/Updating-MPlot3D-to-a-more-recent-matplotlib.-td22302256.html>
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, this doesn't help you right now.
>> Depending on the type of 3D plotting you want to do, some suggestions
>> for other packages that support 3D plotting from Python and work now are:
>> Mayavi2's mlab interface
>> <http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab_3d_plotting_functions.html>
>>
>> gnuplot.py <http://gnuplot-py.sourceforge.net/>
>> DISLIN <http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin>
>> R via RPy <http://rpy.sourceforge.net/>
>>
>> and I'm pretty sure there are more too.
>>
>> Right now, if mayavi2 looks like it'll do what you want, I'd recommend
>> it as your next stop. And in my opinion, I wouldn't say that your time
>> spent learning matplotlib was wasted - 2D plotting is usually useful
>> and matplotlib may soon again have limited 3D capability.
>>
>> Gary R.
>>
>> Etienne Gaudrain wrote:
>>> Hello list !
>>>
>>> This is probably a recurrent topic, or even more probably HAVE been a
>>> recurrent topic... So sorry, sorry, sorry... I wanted to search the
>>> archives but Sourceforge is very slow today (...).
>>>
>>> Anyway, here is my question:
>>>
>>> Is it right that Matplotlib can no longer plot 3D graphes?
>> <snip>
>>> Does it mean that all my efforts to understand and learn Matplotlib
>>> are just a big waste of time since I need another package now that I
>>> need 3D plot? So I ask you for advice: should I forget completely
>>> Matplotlib and move to MayaVI2? Or is there any plan to bring 3D back
>>> into Matplotlib, I mean to make a proper and complete alternative to
>>> Matlab?
>>>
>>> Or am I just upset because I am missing something. I only plot data
>>> every 4 or 6 months, and I really don't expect to see major
>>> functionalities to have disappeared when I come back to plotting
>>> data... is it a wrong expectation?
>>>
>>> Thanks !!
>>> -Etienne
>>
>>
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