Hi Craig: The high-level PLplot interface that I wrote does the job for
me. What else is desired?
Regards,
Doug Hunt
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Craig DeForest wrote:
The problems with PGPLOT licensing (and TJP's unwillingness to support full
RGB graphics) are why I would like to see PLPlot developed more fully. To my
mind, PGPLOT is a (formerly useful) dead end - the installation issues have
always been a concern, and are a serious problem for PDL adoption now.
I'd like to see a similar high-level interface to the PGPLOT one, but
developed for Plplot, which is GPL.
I did formerly maintain the -cd<n> patch distributions to PGPLOT, with the
main advantages that they do chintzy RGB graphics and perform anti-aliased
resampling on pixel devices (at some cost in speed), but Plplot is more
universally compilable, GPLed, equally (perhaps more device independent) and
more thoughtfully implemented. One there is a nice high-level interface to
it within PDL, we can all stop hassling about this stuff and get some work
done! :-)
Cheers,
Craig
On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Josh Narins wrote:
Karl>Yes I am now getting increasingly motivated to get back to the
Karl>tutorial thing.
Sure. Sounds good.
I have to say, though, the navbar on pdl.perl.org looks a bit, um, less
than
fully impressive. That might push some away. Heck, upgrading the website
every year or so makes people assured someone is paying attention without
reading the list ;)
The graphics examples are certainly nice, but maybe it would be nice if the
explanation of the commands used (inserted as single line # perl comments?)
Another issue is ease of installation of PDL + a set of basic support
libs. I have it cracked now on Mac OS X but linux and windows remain an
issue. Linux is difficult because of the wide variety of distros, however
the all work with the IDL binary distro so it may be doable.
From my perspective, you only need debian and redhat. I think many other
distros can handle their formats.
But there is one problem with Debian, for sure. Graphics/PGPLOT/PGPLOT.pm
uses PGPLOT.pm but PGPLOT isn't in debian. I'm not a debian developer,
Perhaps I
should become one, for this.
FYI: I'm a professional perl programmer who took a good bit of math in
college.
I had this one problem for which a graphical 3d solution would be ideal.
Still haven't
figured out the right way to use points3d the way I want.
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