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

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

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Jonathan Taylor
<jon...@ut...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the patch.  How slow is it for you?  I find it slow but

Well, when I use mouse to rotate the image, I can see that it lags behind.

> quite usable.  The main problem, I imagine, is that sympy is using
> OpenGL and thus your graphics card performs all the 3d -> 2d rendering
> whereas we do much of this in python/numpy.  When I get a chance I am
> going to see if I can somewhat speed some of it up by adding an
> optional module to perform a few of these operations in C.

Why not to use OpenGL as well?

Ondrej