Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 07:03:00PM +0100, Cohen-Tanugi Johann wrote: > Nevertheless, I hate to think of matplotlib sending people to mayavi2 each > time 3D plotting is needed. Basic functionalities built-in would still be > highly desirable. Absolutely. I think we need basic 3D plotting function

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:44:16AM -0500, Rob Clewley wrote: > If I have a set of scalar sample data on a rectangular 2D mesh that I > want to plot in the 3D I'd want a simple wireframe rectangular surface > plot. Can it do that? My experience from trying to design a simple API to do simple 3D plo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Rob Clewley wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: > >>> OK, but it wasn't clear from the example that I could plot a 3D array >>> of arbitrary data points. The way that you put together the demo plots >> >> As I understand it, it plots tri

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Rob Clewley
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> OK, but it wasn't clear from the example that I could plot a 3D array >> of arbitrary data points. The way that you put together the demo plots > > As I understand it, it plots triangles and/or wireframe in the end. > Currently I think our

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Rob Clewley wrote: >>> Yes, I didn't know that either. But it's not clear if I can plot >>> discrete data using this interface - at least the examples on the wiki >> >> I am not sure if I understand your question, but It only plots >> discrete data --- it takes som

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Rob Clewley
>> Yes, I didn't know that either. But it's not clear if I can plot >> discrete data using this interface - at least the examples on the wiki > > I am not sure if I understand your question, but It only plots > discrete data --- it takes some sympy expression, evaluates it on a > discrete grid and

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Rob Clewley wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi > wrote: >> wouaouh. if I had known that sumpy had this functionality, I would >> have downloaded it ages ago. This is a good example of justified >> 'taylorisation', IMHO. >> Big +1 on s

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Rob Clewley
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Johann Cohen-Tanugi wrote: > wouaouh. if I had known that sumpy had this functionality, I would > have downloaded it ages ago. This is a good example of justified > 'taylorisation', IMHO. > Big +1 on seing this moved from sympy to matplotlib. I am not expert at

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-05 Thread Johann Cohen-Tanugi
wouaouh. if I had known that sumpy had this functionality, I would have downloaded it ages ago. This is a good example of justified 'taylorisation', IMHO. Big +1 on seing this moved from sympy to matplotlib. I am not expert at coding guis et al, but if you need reviewers/testers or doc write