Re: [Plplot-devel] How to support gradients within PLplot

2008-10-18 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-09 22:42-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > On Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 12:04:56 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > > ... > > Note, the question of PLplot support for gradients has internal core library > > implications (e.g., triangle representation for surfaces), API implications > > (what

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to support gradients within PLplot

2008-10-09 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 12:04:56 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > ... > Note, the question of PLplot support for gradients has internal core library > implications (e.g., triangle representation for surfaces), API implications > (what is the most convenient way to let PLplot users specif

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to support gradients within PLplot

2008-10-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-09 21:44+0200 Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Alan, > > this would actually be a nice addition to the plplot library, to also make it > more modern. Look for example at > > http://www.scilab.org/publications/JARAUSCH/PinconD.pdf > > on page 84 (document is in German). The colors of the 3d pl

Re: [Plplot-devel] How to support gradients within PLplot

2008-10-09 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Alan, this would actually be a nice addition to the plplot library, to also make it more modern. Look for example at http://www.scilab.org/publications/JARAUSCH/PinconD.pdf on page 84 (document is in German). The colors of the 3d plot on the right are interpolated and this looks actually qu

[Plplot-devel] How to support gradients within PLplot

2008-10-09 Thread Alan W. Irwin
What started me thinking about how to support gradients within PLplot is the large PLplot logo at the top of our webpage which is smoothly darkened on the left. I don't know how Werner created that effect, but it is unlikely to be within PLplot because we currently don't support gradients. Instea