Re: Introducing real 3d in Gnuplot (Was: Re: please try POV-Ray and VRML terminals )

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

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 10:04 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > I would prefer a different plan, that would in the end make the
> > core code more readable.  Instead of adding lots of #ifdef....#endif
> > blocks to the core routines, I'd rather create a new set of wrapper
> > routines that can eventually handle both 2D and 3D terminals.
> 
> If there is plot_3D.c and graph_3D.c, there will not be so many additional
> defines.

True, but then we would have the inevitable problem of maintaining
two parallel versions of the core 3D plotting code: One version used
by true 3D terminals, and a a second version used by the existing
3D->projection->2D terminals.  I'd rather have a single set of 
core routines, and only distinguish by terminal type at a lower level.

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