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

[Jonathan T. <jon...@ut...>]

Great.  I applied your patch and pushed it to the web repository.

I agree, that some more serious refactoring might be good.  I have
been leaving comments throughout the code with my thoughts on this.

Cheers,
Jon.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Reinier Heeres <re...@he...> wrote:
> 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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