Chris, Sounds interesting. One feature that I find particularly compelling about PGPLOT is the pgband function. This allows the use to draw a series of boxes and then query the corners of the boxes. It works very well for things like "brushing" of points to change their colors or to select outliers and print out their values.
Maybe this would be more appropriate for the PLlot list, but since I have you on the line.. :) Cheers, David On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > David Donovan wrote: >> >> Maybe one day somebody will heal PGPLOT's bit-rot and this will become >> simpler. :) > > PGPLOT generates nice plots but it is missing > a couple of features that would make things > simpler: > > (1) support for RGB bitmap images > > (I think there is a patch floating around that > has color support but it has never made it into > the mainline distribution---which hasn't changed > in 8 years) > > (2) on-going development and better availability > > (Last updated version was v5.2.2 released 2001-02-26) > > As a result, I'm working to get plplot viable as a > replacement for PGPLOT. (I have not yet been able > to build PLplot out of the box and PDL to use it > for cygwin). > > Assuming I can get the plplot build issues resolved, > my goal is to write an OpenGL based driver for plplot > to unify 3D and 2D graphics for PDL. > > --Chris > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
