Re: POV-Ray Terminal

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

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:14, Daniel Farrell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it a lot of work to get a working POV-ray terminal for splot? 

Please see earlier discussion thread:
   http://marc.info/?t=111331376100001&r=1&w=2


I believe POVRay is a bad choice for this purpose.
Depending on what you want to achieve, you either want an interative
terminal (e.g. OpenGL, VRML) or you want piped output to a separate
renderer.  To the best of my knowledge, POVRay is not suitable for
either of these.

> agree with Timothée that a pseudo-3D plot command could be  
> accomplished, by adding in a depth dimension.

That has historically (e.g. MS Excel) led to absolutely horrible
plots, in which the spiffy 3D effects actively obscure interpretation
of the data being plotted. I will argue strongly that we should not do this.


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Ethan A Merritt