From octave-graphics-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Jan 22 18:18:47 2004
Subject: Re: Handle Graphics and visualisation applications in Octave.
From: Melvin Hadasht <melqart at free dot fr>
To: octave-graphics at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 01:11:15 +0100

Hi,

> Octaviz will not support MATLAB's Handle Graphics. I find MATLAB's Handle 
> Graphics rather limited and encapsulating VTK in it would reduce VTK to about 
> 5-10% of its functionality. I intend to create only Matlab compatible high 
> level functions like figure/surf/plot3 etc. What I want to accomplish with 
> octaviz is to bring whole VTK in octave including its processing 
> functionalities (for example Marching Cubes, surface decimation, etc) which 
> would hardly fit in handle graphics.

I agree, vtk viz power + octave should be a must have.

> agree that there is no need to have multiple h-g implementations. I might 
>need more general framework for my project but if you have a good  
> proposition 
> for h-g (btw, is your paper available?) and implementation I'll try to make 
> octaviz compatible with it for the visualization purposes. 

That would be great: vtk classes power + high level plotting functions. Now,
if there is a lightweight vtk pipeline editor, that would be even better.

To achieve this, would it be by creating highlevel VTK classes, that resemble to the basic matlab objects, for example ?