Re: [PyX-user] Contours plot.

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi Andrea,

On 23.02.05, Andrea Riciputi wrote:
> I think PyX can't do contours plots at the moment, but I'm wondering if 
> there is a tricky way to get them. In the case it is not possible at 
> all, are you about to implement it? Is it in your 'To Do' list, with a 
> low or high priority?

Well, we'll get to that, once I start working again on 3d graphs.
There the first thing will be a surface style ... but a contour style
will be just the next canonical step.

So the question is, when do I start working on other graph geometries?
Hmmm, after I've restructured the data handling of the axis. This
*need* to come first (and I'll do that within the next month or so,
since I really want that in 0.8). So I guess I'll come back to this
issue for 0.9 or 0.10 ... so it might happen this year, but next year
could be as well.

Sure, we could start a surface style in 2d as well (in the end the
surface will allow for that for sure). This would allow for much
easier way to create something like the mandel example ... of course
with proper postscript storage as in the julia example. And here we
could do a contour as well ... before going to 3d. But I do not yet
even know anything about the math which a contour will need. I think
its kind of a standard problem how to create geodesic paths for a
surface given by some values on a grid. Somebody has to do the
mathematics ... and that would be a good starting point. <wink>Are you
interested?</wink>


André

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