Yes, that's an interesting thought. Look how platimg is used in JHP samples to generate OpenGL and viewmat outputs. It's streamed too.
For plot, it's necessary to capture the graphics using glpixels and pass it to platimg. --- "Sherlock, Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been investigating interactively creating plots for display on a > web site. Although the ideal option would be to have some vector-based > format (e.g. SVG) that will display inline on a web page, there doesn't > seem to be a realistic cross-browser option at the moment. So I'm > resigned to using a pixel-based image format (probably PNG) for the time > being. > > As far as I've been able to figure out, plot & pd use the image3 addon > to provide PNG creation > However from a post in an earlier thread I got the impression that the > much "lighter" platimg addon may also be used. Is this true and if so > how? > > Also, it would be nice to have an option in Plot to stream the image > contents rather than write them to a file (in the same way as there are > the PDF and PDFR output options). > > <http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2007-January/004839.html > > > Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > >--- Devon McCormick wrote: > > > Looking at the Wiki pages for the output of plot, I see lines for a > number > > > of plot-types commented out, perhaps because they relied on the > image3 > > > add-on which has only recently been updated to work with J6.01? > > > > > > In any case, I was able to save plots as JPEGs even before I > installed the > > > new version of the add-on so now I'm not sure if that type, and > others like > > > it, do require the add-on. > > > > > Do any of these types not require the add-on: jpg, png, ppm, pgm, > tga? > > > They all seem to work fine for me now. > > > As far as I understand, for any of these an addon is required. > > It's not required for BMP or PDF. Instead of image3, platimg > > lightweight addon can be used. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
