From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Tue Mar  9 12:08:27 1999
Subject: Re: Is there anybody out here? 
From: matthew joseph valenta <mvalenta at u dot washington dot edu>
To: doolin at alpha-8 dot CE dot Berkeley dot EDU
cc: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:08:24 -0800 (PST)



On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 doolin at alpha-8 dot CE dot Berkeley dot EDU wrote:

> I am watching guppi pretty closely.  It claims to be
> the main plotting engine for the gnome project.  If this
> is true, it will be powerful, extensible, and 
> GPL.  Something like that would provide a large head
> start for any graphics front.

Right, what is the status of guppie?  Is it nearing a
usable point?  Is there a way to communicate with it yet?
I don't know how much that was going to get worked out in Gnome 1.0.

Will guppie ever do 3-d plotting?  I know someone is writing a program
called "superficie"  in GTK & MesaGL that seems capable of rendering some
3-d plots now.  I'll check it out tonight.

> Actually, I don't really give a crap about a gui.  I have
> just reached the limitations of what I can do with gnuplot.

Building a plotting GUI isn't my top priority; rather building the
components from which any GUI could be built.  After all, I'm not sure
it's wise to handle plotting in octave, when it is more useful to have a
general tool like guppie or kchart if they're up to speed.

What is the status of octave-plplot?  I've never seen it.

Matt Valenta
206-524-6444
mvalenta at u dot washington dot edu