Re: [matplotlib-devel] Delaunay code: future directions?

[Ian T. <ian...@gm...>]

On 6 March 2013 19:10, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chr...@no...>wrote:

> """
> Qhull does not support triangulation of non-convex surfaces, mesh
> generation of non-convex objects, ... or constrained Delaunay
> triangulations
> """
> these are key to my needs, but are they for MPL?
>

No, all we need is a drop-in replacement for the existing code, i.e. 2D
unconstrained Delaunay.  Further functionality is outside our remit of
"plotting library".

I've also got a colleague with some nice code based on Donald Knuth's
> Axioms and Hulls monograph. If someone it interested in adding some
> tests and python wrappers, I'll bet he'd be glad to release it with a
> suitable license. (C++).


We've talked about this before and previously I have been interested.  But
now I think it is unnecessary to maintain our own code when we have a
drop-in replacement that has worked so well for scipy.

Ian