Re: Now working on POV-Ray terminal

[KITA T. <t-...@cc...>]

From: Ga=EBl Varoquaux <var...@cl...>
Subject: Re: Now working on POV-Ray terminal

> KITA Toshihiro <t-kita <at> cc.kumamoto-u.ac.jp> writes:
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> > I am astonished to see the thread starting with
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>   Sorry, I did Google a bit on such a subject but apperntly not enoug=
h.

That is not so. That e-mail I sent is the first announcement of our =

development. You can see what we previously developed at
http://t-kita.net/webplot/
http://t-kita.net/som/
but, they are not directly related to gnuplot.

# Actually the POV-Ray terminal codes began to work only one or two
# weeks before.

> > I and one of my students, Miyata, are currently working on the
> > POV-Ray and VRML terminal of gnuplot.
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>    This is very good new. I was going to give it a try, but I am defi=
nitely not
>  a good coder and it would have been quite hard for me, especially si=
nce I have
> very little time to spend on this.

Honestly, we are not so good at coding either.
Our codes are simply made after trials and errors, so I am afraid =

gnuplot developers will be disappointed at our dirty codes.

>    If I can be of any help don't hesitate, but I must warn you, I am =
not an IT
> professional therefore my ability to read or write code is quite low,=
 and I have
> started using povray only two month ago. However this is a project I =
find very
> exiting, both for my own use, and for gnuplot's future and I am more =
than
> willing to help.
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>     Ga=EBl

I am glad you are intereted in our work.
Unlike other popular GUI-based plotting tools, gnuplot can be easily dr=
iven by
CUI-based commands and scripts. That is why I love to use gnuplot and
I want to add virtual-reality terminals to it.

Anyway, we would like to release the patch file as soon as possible.
# to avoid excessive expectations. :-)

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