James Amundson ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 13:28, Jay Belanger wrote:
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>>Is there any interest in having gnuplot specific drawing commands?
>
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> Yes. In fact, I was going to propose that we
> 1) make gnuplot the default plotting application
> 2) make it possible to send gnuplot-specfic information to
> gnuplot
> 3) ditch mgnuplot in favor of talking to gnuplot directly.
>
> I was only going to propose 3 after demonstrating a proof-of-concept
> implementation. (I currently only have a proof-of-proof-of-concept
> implementation.)
>
> My basic thesis is this: plotting with Octave is not ideal, but it is
> much more useful than any plotting we have available in Maxima. The
> high-level plotting commands in octave provide a wrapper for gnuplot.
> The low-level commands provide a direct connection to gnuplot. I think
> stealing these ideas (if not the specifics) is the simplest way for us
> to improve the plotting capabilities of Maxima.
>
> Gnuplot-specific contour plotting routines would certainly be consistent
> with my ideas.
>
Making gnuplot default plotting application is a good idea.
But there are few things in current Maxima OpemMath plot
engine I like - (1) online 3D plot rotation (2) surface coloring
for 3D plots. Is (2) possible in gnuplot at all? I haven't
seen any examples.
I's like to point out at SciLab.
It is multi platform. Works perfectly well to me
at least on Windows and Linux.
Plotting capabilities are quite impressive and IMHO plot
quality is a bit better compared to gnuplot.
Plot can be saved as postscript and rotated (for 3D plots)
directly from plotting window.
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Vadim V. Zhytnikov
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