I am thinking a lot lately about cross-platform plotting, a perennial favorite on this list, no doubt. Back in 2006, the TriD package was described by Christian as 'effectively orphaned'. Perhaps it was in response to this that Chris took up POGL and TriD? Anyway, it seems to be working for me (on my laptop, though not quite on my desktop) and I assume it's working for Chris on Windows.
This means that at the moment, OpenGL may be our best contender for cross-platform graphics. I would like to believe that PLplot is our best contender for cross-platform 2d plotting, but a few days ago I tried installing it on a Windows virtualbox with Strawberry Perl and it failed. Then it occurred to me: couldn't we get some sort of rudimentary cross-platform 2d plotting if we could suppress the z-axis, and changed the twiddling behavior? It wouldn't be publication quality, but it's better than nothing. I'm working through PDL's code base slowly. I'll get to it eventually, if somebody doesn't beat me to it. Just thought I'd throw the idea out. David
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