On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:14 PM, J Elaych wrote: > > For 3d plots it's really very similar, but of course they aren't > always png's. Calling show with viewer="tachyon" just renders a png, > and we're in the above case. Calling show with no options (no > viewer="tachyon") uses jmol, which means that a certain file type is > output. The notebook then notices that file was created and embeds a > java jmol applet configured using that file. > > Anyway, I'm just hopefully clarifying how things work now. I'm not > actually answering your questions below though. > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.org > > ... > > That's fine, but after one has displayed 3d plots as well as 2d plots > the > differences are really striking: the interactive feature of jmol is > too good > to want to give up for other plots. The OP mentioned mayavi et al > and I'd like to add interactive imaging (resp. image processing) using > PIL for instance. > > It would be very nice to be able to display movie clips or real time > images > during image processing, especially in conjunction with the @interact > decorator. I'm just thinking out loud because everyone who > ultimately > uses jmol plotting is going to want that kind of interactivity in the > notebook > for other kinds of output.
I want that too. Anyone have a patch? There is talk of a html5 canvas backend for matplotlob, and various other 2d plotting options. None have been implemented/integrated yet. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
