Re: [Visualpython-users] Problem installing on Mac (non-default python location perhaps?)

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:26:53 K.-Michael Aye wrote:
> Just wondered, are you guys aware of the fact, that Enthought comes with an
> implementation of VPython?  It does not feel exactly like the full one
> because it's running in a tvtk window, but it is otherwise quite usable.
> It's inside the mayavi library.

I've given it a spin last year. At that time it was a spinoff of the VPython 
3.x API. Due to the fact that Mayavi2 is very powerful in its features,  
VPython has to deal with less overhead, and is quite a lot more performant for 
great numbers of individual objects. Also there were quite a few glitches in 
the implementation. But of course, it was usable for many/certain cases.

I've given a talk and written about it (among other things) at the last Kiwi 
PyCon last November. 

"Python Data Plotting and Visualisation Extravaganza"
http://ojs.pythonpapers.org/index.php/tppm/article/view/121
http://kiwipycon.blip.tv/file/3849517/

Guy

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