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

[Ondrej C. <on...@ce...>]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Rob Clewley <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik <on...@ce...> wrote:
>
>>> OK, but it wasn't clear from the example that I could plot a 3D array
>>> of arbitrary data points. The way that you put together the demo plots
>>
>> As I understand it, it plots triangles and/or wireframe in the end.
>> Currently I think our plotting mainly works with surfaces. How can you
>> plot a 3D array of arbitrary data points?
>
> E.g., by plotting a dot at the coordinate (x,y,z).

I guess more like a small ball in opengl. I think this can be done
directly in pyglet.

>
>> You need to convert it to
>> some triangles first, e.g. do you want to plot contours (isosurfaces)?
>> Or do you want to cut a plane in your 3D data points and plot that
>> plane?
>>
>
> If I have a set of scalar sample data on a rectangular 2D mesh that I
> want to plot in the 3D I'd want a simple wireframe rectangular surface
> plot. Can it do that?

Yes, that can be done. I can post a simple example, but right now I am
urgently working on getting mayavi2 working in the offline mode in the
Sage notebook for my presentation on Friday, so I'll get back to this
later.

Ondrej