Hi Bernhard, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I can definitively second that. ROOT is a bit hard to learn but very, >> > very powerful and PyRoot is really a pleasure to work with. >> >> It sounds interesting. Right now, I use matplotlib for >> 2D plotting and vtk for 3D. Do you have any experience and >> can give some recommendations? > > Hi Fabian! > > I recommend using matplotlib for data visualization, because the usage > of the plotting commands is much(!!!) more convenient. In ROOT you have > to create objects before you can draw your diagrams. The constructor > often requires arguments about the number of space points, axis length, > name etc. On the other hand, the figure itself has a GUI to manipulate > the plot, which sometimes is nicer than doing everything in the script. > In particular the 3D visualization seems to be more comprehensive (lots > of drawing options, rotation of the plot with the mouse, changing of > visualization lego, surf, contour plots etc.). > > ROOT has more than plotting. For example it has a whole bunch of > containers to store very large amounts of data (within complex > datastructures), fitting routines, minimizers etc. But you get that > with scipy and numpy. > > I'm using 80% of the time matplotlib because it's much quicker for > quick glances at your data. If I need sophisitcated 3D plots, I use > ROOT, but I would love to switch to matplotlib for this, as well. > > My guess is that using python and matplotlib with scipy speeds up my > work by at least 30% in comparison to using purely ROOT (and code in > C++). And even 10-15% in comparison to the usage of ROOT with pyRoot.
Thanks for your advice! Greetings! Fabian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
