Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Taylor <
jon...@ut...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I saw that 3D plotting was dropped from matplotlib since the last time
> I used it.  Unfortunately, it is pretty necessary for some of the work
> I am doing.  Thus, I have started the process of refactoring the code
> to work with recent versions of matplotlib.
>
> Right now, it is still in very early stages and is quite flaky but I
> do have some functionality.  In particular, I am able to do a regular
> 3d plot, a wireframe plot and a scatter plot.  If this interests
> anyone I am making the code available via git.  Instructions are
> available on my website at:
>

That's great -- a number of people were very disappointed to see the
functionality removed, even though it was primitive compared to a good 3D
toolkit.  The problem was, we could never find a core developer who was
interested in taking it under his wing.  Once you get this to a satisfactory
point, I suggest you develop it as an mpl toolkit.  That way, it will get
installed with every mpl distro (the plain vanilla toolkits we ship, the
complex ones like basemap are distributed separately) but without the
implicit promise of full support until someone is willing to step up and
offer to fully support it.

JDH