3d terminals - any hope?

[Michail V. <ma...@ia...>]

Dear All,

is there any plans to make real 3d terminal API that would provide 
terminal driver with x,y,z as opposed to current x,y?

IMHO, there were attempts to introduce VRML and POV-Ray output, but they
had to be hacks and were not welcomed by the core team.

The reason for my interest is the fact that now Adobe Reader has 3D 
capabilities, it can show embedded 3D models without any plugins.
That may solve one of the problems of 3D adoption - the lack of a widely 
installed viewer.
There is free software to make such models from VRML-like text files and 
embed them into PDF.
(a gallery of 3D pdfs is at http://www.pdf3d.co.uk/gallery.php
scientific use example can be fount at  http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/3dpdf/ )

Hope that will make the gnuplot team reevaluate the prospects of 3D support.

      Sincerely, Michail