Re: [Octaviz-help] octaviz being abandoned [Fwd: Re: Octaviz patch for VTK 5.2 (incomplete)]

[Lukas D. <luk...@ni...>]

Just out of curiosity how good is the 64 bit support/integration of scipy ?
>From a quick look in wikipedia it looks very promising, v.0.7.1 though but
interface to R and debugging seem nice.  I'm staying with octave mainly because
the set of numerical (old, debugged and reliable) fortran libs is excellent and
64bit compatible.

greetings
Lukas

On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:20:48AM -0500, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> I am abandoning Octaviz.  I do not see a future with Octaviz with Octave 
> developers fully committed to so-called 'native' graphics using fltk and 
> opengl.  Personally, I have switched to using python/scipy with 
> matplotlib and mayavi2, a better numerical programming language and much 
> better plotting and visualization, in my opinion.
> 
> The last activity with Octaviz that I am aware of came from Andreas 
> Potschka (see below).  He attempted to fix Octaviz to compile with 
> vtk-5.2, with limited success.  I have tried to check in his work to 
> CVS, in case anyone wants to revive the project in the future.
> 
> Regards,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Octaviz patch for VTK 5.2 (incomplete)
> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:52:09 +0100
> From: Andreas Potschka <pot...@iw...>
> To: Jonathan Stickel <jjs...@vc...>
> CC: dr...@us..., jjs...@us...
> References: 
> <29f...@ma...>	 
> <4AF...@vc...>
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> thanks for the answer. It's a rewrite of the bison interface plus some
> changes in the lexer and the wrapper. It compiles with VTK 5.2. I am
> sorry, but I can't put more time into this. It should not be a lot of
> work for you to diff it yourself which is why I won't send you a
> patchfile.
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas
> 
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> > Unfortunately, Octaviz is more-or-less dead, mostly because it no longer
> > compiles with recent versions of VTK, as you have found.  A rewrite of its
> > bison interface is likely needed.  I am not sure what you did here.  If you
> > sent a patchfile showing differences, I might take a look.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
> > Andreas Potschka wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I send these files to you and hope they may help you.
> >>
> >> I tried for two days to get octaviz compile with VTK 5.2 and managed
> >> to get the source to compile. However, from within octave I get errors
> >> like
> >>
> >> octave:1> t = linspace(0, 1, 11);
> >> octave:2> [x,y] = meshgrid(t,t);
> >> octave:3> vtk_surf(x,y,x.*y)
> >> error: Method was found but arguments were wrong.
> >> error: called from `vtk_trisurf' in file
> >> `/usr/share/octave/3.0.5/site/m/octaviz/vtk_trisurf.m'
> >> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 91, column 6
> >> error: evaluating if command near line 88, column 3
> >> error: called from `vtk_surf' in file
> >> `/usr/share/octave/3.0.5/site/m/octaviz/vtk_surf.m'
> >>
> >> I don't have more time to work on the issue. Maybe you have.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Andreas
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation
> Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business
> Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts
> Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com
> _______________________________________________
> Octaviz-help mailing list
> Oct...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octaviz-help

-- 
Lukas L. Diduch
Smartspace Laboratory
Information Access Division (IAD) 
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

web    : http://www.nist.gov/smartspace
email  : lukas (dot) diduch (at) nist (dot) gov
office : +1 (301) 975 6399
fax    : +1 (301) 975 5287