On Apr 16, 6:27 pm, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu>
wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:14 PM, J Elaych wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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
>
> > ...
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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
No, but there's got to be a first time for me to submit a patch.
I do browse the code but I'm new and would need some direction in
order
to make anything thats actually usable for anyone but me.
If someone wants to spec out how such an improvement should
be implemented, I'd be happy to work with them.
J
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