If you're looking for UI ideas, Mathematica's CDF Viewer makes for some slick interactive 3d plots: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/symbol.html?symbol=Plot3D
On Friday, May 23, 2014 10:49:05 AM UTC-4, Job van der Zwan wrote: > > By the way, no discussion about data visualisation tools is complete > without this design prototype by Bret Victor: > > https://vimeo.com/66085662 > > and Victor's written addendum: > > http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddendum/ > > On Saturday, 17 May 2014 18:51:37 UTC+2, Simon Danisch wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I'm currently in the planning phase for my GSOC 3D Visualization project, >> which also means, that I need to define what the most important >> visualization forms are. >> I must admit, that I haven't done much plotting myself, so I would have >> to guess what the really important bits are. >> Instead of slavishly <http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/slavishly.html> >> imitating >> Matlabs plot functions with some mix-ins from my side, I thought we can do >> better, by getting feedback off the people, that actually plan to use 3D >> plotting in Julia! >> It would help me a lot, if you could specify what you need exactly in >> great detail. >> Just tell me what you hate about current solutions, what features you >> really like, the format of your data, how you like to work, etc... >> Like this, I can find out what needs to be done in order to visualize >> your data, rate the importance and difficulty and than decide in which >> order I implement the different plotting capabilities. >> Any feedback, ideas and comments are welcome! >> >> Best wishes, >> Simon >> >