Hmm... interesting. Easy to use from java != easy to use from a browser (for stuff with lots of native bindings). Still could be cool...
- Robert On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:53 PM, William Stein wrote: > > On 8/24/07, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > dortmund.de> wrote: >> On Aug 24, 9:28 pm, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> mayavi2 is alive and in development, but I think the matplotlib >>> and 3D >>> hasn't improved much. >>> >> >> Is one of the above substantially better than the other or does each >> have its strength and weaknesses? VTK/mayavi seems to be to be more >> impressive, I had a look at it a couple years ago to visualize data >> from finite element computations and for that it just seemed to be >> the >> best (open source) package out there - and it wipes the floor with >> quite a lot of the commercial code out there, too . >> >> The other question I have is whether we must use the Tk interface for >> VTK/mayavi or can we use it via some other way like Java? Tk would be >> yet another dependency. > > Interestingly it does seem to be possible to use VTK directly from > Java. > See > http://ij-plugins.sourceforge.net/vtk-examples/index.html > > I hope somebody tries this out (Robert Bradshaw?). > > -- William > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
