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

[Reinier H. <re...@he...>]

Hi all,

I was also a bit disappointed about the fact that 3d plotting support
was dropped. I'm happy to help out to get it going again, so here's a
patch to get surface plotting working; I'm busy with the contour plots
as well.
(We might want to do some code refactoring as well when it's functional).

Regards,
Reinier

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Rob Clewley <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I'd just like to add that having a *bare minimum* 3D capability in mpl
> is extremely useful to me -- i.e. being to visualize 3D data as a
> point cloud or a wireframe mesh. While teaching with python and doing
> numerical experiments in my research it's invaluable to be able to
> throw together a wholly non-publication quality 3D plot to get a quick
> idea of what's going on. I would imagine that others who use mpl
> professionally (and not necessarily only for public consumption) would
> agree on the value of maintaining this bare minimum even if there is
> no short- or medium-term expectation that it will develop into
> anything more sophisticated.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
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