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

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

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Taylor <jon...@ut...
> wrote:

> That sounds reasonable.  Can I ask what it is that was primitive?
> Having looked through the code I see that a few shortcuts were made to
> minimize the amount of code written that makes it especially
> susceptible to changes in the 2D code.  That said, it seems like it
> was comparable functionally to matlab's 3d plots, which is my goal for
> it.
>

Well, it is painfully slow, since it does everything in software, and there
are some corner cases where the zorder clipping is broken in the presence of
alpha transparency, and it doesn't do lighting, shadows, etc....  But it
does do enough for basic stuff, so we would be happy if you could resurrect
it cleanly enough for a toolkit.


>
> P.S.  I saw your talk at NIPS 2008 this year.  I have used mpl for a
> while now but that demo where you url.opened() yahoo finance and
> plotted it with those nice dates in 2/3 lines was very nice. ;)



Yep, that is a favorite example of mine :-)  I'm giving a talk at SIAM on
Thursday, and I think I'll do this one again, time permitting.

JDH