Re: [Matplotlib-users] Efficient matplotlib use on iOS and Android apps

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

why not use MathJax?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:03 AM, asiga <asi...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to render LaTeX math formulas on mobile apps (iOS/Android), with
> high
> quality, and as efficiently as possible.
>
> I'm considering matplotlib as the best candidate at the moment. Maybe it
> might be a bit overkill because I don't need plotting, just math formulas
> rendering, but it has a "copycenter" license (very welcome when you target
> iOS), and it seems to render LaTeX math with high quality. So I think it
> beats other options I found (MathGL: copyleft license; and MathJax: setting
> a complete Javascript engine just for rendering math does seem overkill to
> me).
>
> However, I still have some doubts before choosing matplotlib:
>
> 1) Can I redirect the output of math rendering to OpenGL calls, or convert
> it into a 2D triangle mesh for example? (if the drawing commands issued by
> matplotlib when rendering math are a relatively small set, I can translate
> them to OpenGL myself, but I need to know where should I do that
> translation
> (I've zero idea about matplotlib internals, and I'm a Python newbie -I'm
> here because I need math rendering, not because I use Python).
>
> (note that I wish to render through OpenGL because I want to be able to
> interactively pan and zoom math very efficiently: the best approach would
> be
> to cache the matplotlib output as a -for example- 2D triangle mesh, and
> then
> just send the triangles to OpenGL, without having to call matplotlib on
> each
> screen redraw, which would kill performance)
>
> 2) In order to get matplotlib running as efficient as possible on mobile
> devices, would you recommend that I translate matplotlib to C/C++ using any
> of the translators available? If affirmative, what translator would you
> suggest me to use?
>
> Thanks a lot!!
>
>
>
>
>
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