Re: [Matplotlib-users] mplot3d stays?

[Gael V. <gae...@no...>]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:16:40AM +0100, Friedrich Romstedt wrote:
> 2010/2/25 Eric Firing <ef...@ha...>:
> > Is it time for some re-thinking of the approach to 3-D?  I am a bystander,
> > but I have the uneasy sense that trying to turn mplot3d into a first-class
> > 3-D plotting tool may be a misapplication of effort. Might the effort be
> > more productive if applied to mayavi, or built on mayavi, so that the 3-D
> > engine is already taken care of?

> Hmm, mayavi seems not suitable for our purpose,
> http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/docs/guide/ch04.html
> First, mayavi always creates its gui, second, one has to use an
> intermediate vtk file.  Don't know what about using vtk directly.

What Eric was most probably talking about is the newer versions of
Mayavi, that we tend to call 'mayavi2', even though we are now up to
version 3, in particular the mlab interface:

http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab.html

which is demoed in the examples:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/examples.html

I believe that Mayavi does take care of the task you are interested in.
It has its limitation and annoyances, but a lot of people use it quite
efficiently to do 3D plotting, for simple problems to very complex ones.

Gaël