To summarize what I have been up to recently, the gradient work lead to affine transformation utilities, which lead (indirectly) to a key fix for 3D text rendering. That made it much easier (with some key help from Andrew) to diagnose the remaining 3D text rendering issues so now every device gives the same results for example 28 outside some remaining minor justification troubles. Once we had consistency for example 28 results, it became obvious that pages 2 and 3 were uglier than they had to be so I changed the C example to fix that and have propagated that example fix to most of the remaining languages. (And as usual I would appreciate help with the remaining example 28 language propagation.) Finally, my propagation work demonstrated some style issues for Java and D which I fixed with our uncrustify infrastructure.
If all this work sounds completely unplanned and simply following my nose, that is an excellent characterization of my recent PLplot work! :-) However, now it is time for me to get back to finishing the gradient work. Originally, there were three gradient-related issues I was working on, but I have worked around one of them by keeping the number of points used for the software gradient fallback at 20x20. That leaves just the native gradient skew and clip issues I described before. I plan to deal with the skew issue first since I expect the affine utilities I have put together will be a big help with that implementation. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
