Quick answer: No intention, but that doesn't mean much.
Longer answer:
If someone wrote a patch to do a new kind of plot, along with documentation,
examples, and test scripts, and it didn't break or seriously bend any other
PHPlot plots, it would almost surely get into PHPlot quickly. Realistically,
that's probably never going to happen.
At the other extreme, someone might just suggest a new feature or plot type,
preferable by writing a feature request in the tracker. Whether it gets
implemented or not depends on a lot. How much info was available? (Some plot
types aren't very well defined - references would help.) How hard would it be
to implement? (If it doesn't fit in with the way PHPlot does data arrays,
scaling, etc it would be quite hard.) How much value would it add to PHPlot?
It has happened. Horizontal plots were finally added after years of requests.
Financial plots (candlestick and OHLC) were added based on [a feature request]
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3093483&group_id=14653&atid=3
64653). Bubble plots were added because I saw them in Libreoffice and thought
it would be something worth trying. Bubble plots also introduced a limited 3D
data type, which is a small step towards other 3D plots.
Summary: A feature request with a description and reference links would be a
good start, but let's not get our hopes up. (In case it isn't apparent, by the
way, PHPlot is a one-person show - me - doing development, documentation,
testing and release. Not that I'm complaining.)
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Is there any intention to include a surface plot at all?
Quick answer: No intention, but that doesn't mean much.
Longer answer:
If someone wrote a patch to do a new kind of plot, along with documentation,
examples, and test scripts, and it didn't break or seriously bend any other
PHPlot plots, it would almost surely get into PHPlot quickly. Realistically,
that's probably never going to happen.
At the other extreme, someone might just suggest a new feature or plot type,
preferable by writing a feature request in the tracker. Whether it gets
implemented or not depends on a lot. How much info was available? (Some plot
types aren't very well defined - references would help.) How hard would it be
to implement? (If it doesn't fit in with the way PHPlot does data arrays,
scaling, etc it would be quite hard.) How much value would it add to PHPlot?
It has happened. Horizontal plots were finally added after years of requests.
Financial plots (candlestick and OHLC) were added based on [a feature request]
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3093483&group_id=14653&atid=3
64653). Bubble plots were added because I saw them in Libreoffice and thought
it would be something worth trying. Bubble plots also introduced a limited 3D
data type, which is a small step towards other 3D plots.
Summary: A feature request with a description and reference links would be a
good start, but let's not get our hopes up. (In case it isn't apparent, by the
way, PHPlot is a one-person show - me - doing development, documentation,
testing and release. Not that I'm complaining.)