From graphics-request at octave dot org Mon Sep 26 07:10:30 2005
Subject: Re: Octave plotter for 3D shading plots ?
From: Dragan Tubic <dragan dot tubic dot 1 at ulaval dot ca>
To: graphics at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:04:03 -0500

You can try octaviz (http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/). It doesn't have handle
graphic but it has most of matlab's visualization functions
(http://octaviz.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=manpages). You can rotate the
mesh with the mouse (zoom, pan etc are also there). You can export to eps, rib
(renderman), jpeg etc.

Dragan

Selon JH <julien dot hillairet at onecert dot fr>, 23.09.2005:

> Hello,
>
> I've just came into this news server and those octave's forums, so
> please excuse me if my question is stupid.
>
> I'm searching for replace my matlab needs by octave, whose I found very
> powerful ; I've checked, and lots of my programs written with matlab
> would still work with octave, with some minor modifications.
>
> But there is still a problem, about plotting with octave. By default, I
> think the official plotter of octave is gnuplot. But in despites the
> qualitys of gnuplot, it is not why I'm expecting, specially in 3D plots
> and shading surfaces. I can't afford to obtain the same display-like
> results of "mesh" that I had with matlab. And visualisation after
> rendering is impossible (you can't "rotate" with the mouse the mesh you
> made)
>
> Happily, gnuplot is not the only choice of plotter in octave, and that's
> the point : I've read in this forum that there is many other plotters.
>
> I don't want to begin a holy war, but I'm searching for the plotter who
> would feed my needs at best, under Linux.
> What I want do to is simple : easy plot in 2D (and figures exporting)
> and moreover, plot 3D shading surface (in fact, like the way matlab does
> with the command
> "surface(X,Y,Z), shading interp;"
>
>
> Could you help me ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> JH
>
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