Re: 4.2 priority & depth patch

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 02:10 am, Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote:
>
> Some reasons why I'd like this beeing raised to priority 1:

It seems my automated scheme to elicit comments is working :-)

OK. This one can go to cvs without further change.
The April version still applies with no error.

As discussed previously, I would still like the option
to sort these pm3d rectangles jointly with labels and arrows.
But that would involve a different code path altogether, and
adding your version now does not preclude offering a variant
triggered by 'set hidden3d' at some later date.

	Ethan


>
> 1. works better than existing pm3d methods which assume ordered data,
>    so the depth method is a method which can be turned on by default
>    while the other methods will produce junk for unordered data and
>    also especially for data generated by parametric plots.
>
> 2. another postponement will add more work to include it again and
> again into current gnuplot versions, therefore makes it more likely
> that the patch will finally die.
>
> A personal note: actually the absence of this patch in gnuplot is the
> main reason why I don't upgrade gnuplot!
>
> Best wishes,

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA