Pat LeSmithe wrote: > > Hello, Sage developers, > > In the interest of cross-fertilization, I'd like to mention VisIt [1] > and ParaView [2]. These are BSD-licensed parallel visualization > applications based partly on the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) [3]. > > [1] https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/ > http://visitusers.org/index.php?title=Main_Page > [2] http://paraview.org > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > [3] http://www.vtk.org/ > http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK > > I'm still new to Sage, and I see there's already experimental support > for VTK and Mayavi. I don't wish to step on anyone's toes, but perhaps > there could also be interesting connections between Sage and ParaView > and/or VisIt. Although I'm not affiliated with nor an expert on any of > these projects, I'm happy to let the VisIt and ParaView developers know > of any interest and to relay some questions I cannot answer. Their > respective sites and mailing lists should yield more detailed > information. Of course, ideas are welcome! > > In a feeble attempt to get started, I mention that ParaView and VisIt > both have built-in Python shells, which may be useful for making graphs > or rendering 3D objects: > > http://paraview.org/Wiki/Python_Programmable_Filter > http://visitusers.org/index.php?title=Plotting_mathematical_functions_in_VisIt > > Both also have extensible plug-in architectures. > > Is there --- or should there be --- a standard protocol over which Sage > can work interactively with any visualization application that supports > it? Glossing over these "details," and what to do in parallel > situations, I think it'd be great to be able to "import sage" to access > Sage's command-line capabilities inside VisIt and ParaView. Is this > possible? > > Going the other way, "import visit" already works in a vanilla Python shell: > > https://email.ornl.gov/mailman/htdig/visit-users/2008-May/000234.html > > I've contacted a ParaView developer who says they're currently redoing > Python integration and would be interested in doing what it takes to get > "import paraview" working. > > Anyway, thanks for any interest, comments, and ideas! >
I'm working on an experimental paraview3.spkg. Cheers, Jaap --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
