From help-request at octave dot org Mon Jan 23 08:29:33 2006
Subject: Re: Octaviz
From: Carlo de Falco <carlo dot defalco at gmail dot com>
To: "Henry F. Mollet" <mollet at pacbell dot net>
Cc: Joe Koski <jkoski11 at comcast dot net>, Octave_post <help@octave.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:47:45 -0600

On 1/22/06, Henry F. Mollet <mollet at pacbell dot net> wrote:
> > so I considered two options:
> >
> > 1) Octaviz, but I've not been able to build that on tiger
> > 2) Opendx, but I would need some kind of octave/dx communication
> > such at that present for gnuplot...
> >
> > Any suggestions or any other options?
> >
> > Carlo.
> >
>
> Presumably you know of
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/2510

No , I didn't know that page, so thanks
for the pointer!

> I also could not install Octaviz
> (wrapper so one can use VTK directly in Octave)
> several months ago and haven't have time to explore further. I did manage to
> install VTK using Fink and the following commands work in the Terminal
> window and in xterm window, respectively:
>
> [~] -bash-2.05b 501$ cd sw/bin
> [/sw/bin] -bash-2.05b 506$ python -i
> /sw/share/doc/vtk-py23/Examples/Modelling/Python/expCos.py
>
> henry-f-mollets-emac:~ hfm$ cd /sw/bin
> henry-f-mollets-emac:/sw/bin hfm$ ./python -i
> /sw/share/doc/vtk-py23/Examples/Modelling/Python/expCos.py
>
> In both cases the Besselfunction appears in a window called X Visualization
> Toolkit - Open GL and can be rotated
> Henry

That's very similar to what I can do
now using opendx.
My problem is getting some sort of efficient
communictation between octave and the visualization
tool, because now I only get to plot by saving
data into a text file and calling dx through a "system"
command. I think that's the same I would have to do
in vtk unless I get the octaviz wrappers in place,
isn't it?
Carlo



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