>>>>> "CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
CY> --- Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> wrote:
CY> does anyone know anything about the plplot
>> library? In my
>>
>> plplot does not work on Solaris. Doing a foreign
>> function interface is a pain.
>>
>> Otherwise, it looks ok. Don't know how easy it is
>> to use.
CY> Any idea why it won't fly on Solaris?
There's some kind of X error. I don't know anything about X so I
can't begin to fix it.
>> Is it because maxima is slow in generating the data for
>> plotting or is it because the display of the plot is slow? The
>> Klein bottle demo is pretty slow on my 300 MHz Ultra 30.
>> Rotating the plot with the mouse is pretty fast, but the
>> surface is very randomly patched until I stop moving the mouse.
>> Then the display is fixed very quickly. On my 800 MHz Linux
>> box, I think the surface rotates nicely in one piece.
CY> That's the behavior I see. Is there any way to make
CY> that cleaner? The current plotting isn't bad, but I
Use something else beside tcl/tk for omplotdata?
>> I think maxima has the right idea: Use some external process to
>> do the actual display and let maxima generate the data. Doing
>> anything else makes maxima much less portable.
CY> Agreed. The trick is talking between the two.
Use the same protocol, whatever that is. I'm pretty sure maxima just
starts up a pipe to the other process and just sends data down the
pipe.
Ray