Hi Norman I have wondered the same thing myself. I did some work with direct2d recently and wondered if there would be any performance gain using a hardware accelerated rendering with plplot. Presumably hardware accelerating the 3d work would give a speed increase, but this would mean some quite deep changes to the plplot core. I'm not sure of the benefit when using 2d rendering.
wxWidgets includes a wxGLCanvas class. Creating a wxDC which drew on a wxGLCanvas or a plain openGL canvas would give you openGL rendering of 2d forms which can be used by plplot with essentially no changes to the plplot code. If it's of interest give it a go! Phil On 18 March 2015 at 19:06, Norman Goldstein <norm...@telus.net> wrote: > What do you think of an OpenGL device, where the user supplies a GL > context, and plplot writes into it with OpenGL primitives -- so, neither > file-based nor raster-based? plplot's svg is a non-raster-based, but is > file-based. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all > things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to > news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the > conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-devel mailing list > Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel