On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Ben Axelrod <baxel...@coroware.com> wrote: > I am not a MPL developer,
You are now :-) > but I am using mplot3d quite heavily right now to support 3D plots for a > client of mine. I have found many bugs and > lacking features which I require in the mplot3d library and have modified my > local copy of the code significantly. I am > eagerly awaiting Reinier's return from vacation so that I can work with him > to integrate my improvements. For the most > part, these fixes simply make the 3D plots behave more like the 2D plots. > Here is a tentative list of my changes so far: > > * bug fix: placement of title in 3D plots to match 2D plot behavior > * bug fix: allow facecolors and edgecolors to be specified as 'none' in 3D > scatter plots to match the 2D scatter plot behavior > * bug fix: allow all keyword arguments to be used in text3D > * bug fix: allow an array of colors to be passed into bar3d to specify the > colors on a per-bar or per-face basis > * bug fix: allow all keyword arguments to be used in bar3d > * bug fix: allow 3d scatter plots with 3 or 4 points with colors specified > * new feature: new method to disable mouse rotation in 3D plots > * new feature: new Z-order sorting heuristic to eliminate rendering issues > for the common case of using bar3d to visualize a 2D histogram > * new feature: new method text2D > * code cleanup: warn when canvas is None which disables mouse callbacks > * code cleanup: fully document more methods in mplot3d I'd be happy to take a look at this patch and commit it - Reinier can review it and make any necessary changes when he gets back. > Although I haven't written them yet, I can probably create a couple more > example codes: > * example code: demonstrate use of transform() to do rectangle selection in > 3D scatter plots > * example code: mplot3d with wx - demonstrate turning off mouse rotations to > make pan and zoom toolbar buttons work properly > > There are a few other bugs that I would really like fixed, but can't quite > figure out right now. Hopefully Reinier will be able to shed some light on > these: > * axis label picking for 3D axes > * how to set axis tick label properties for 3D axes > * allow 3d boxes with transparent faces to make "wireframe" boxes > * fix z-order sorting across multiple calls to bar3d() > > I should note that because of my client, I have a vested interest in seeing > mplot3d (with the above bug fixes) make it > into a stable release of MPL. But at the same time, I don't have a lot of > spare time to spend on MPL development. I see no reason why they can't make it into the (overdue, upcoming) 1.0 if you can get a patch together in the next week or two. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
