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[Kristen Kaasbjerg <cosby@xxxxxxxxx>]

So what do people in general do when they want to produce nice 3D plots ?

Kristen


Dag Lindbo wrote:
> As far as I know, it is impossible to render volumetric data to eps in 
> a meaningful and robust way (since the PS format is based around 
> scaling vectors). Note that VTK, the underlying library in paraview, 
> mayavi, viper, only has "experimental" support for this (for simple 3d 
> scenes): http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkGL2PSExporter.html
>
> and relies on a library (GL2PS):
> http://www.geuz.org/gl2ps/
>
> /Dag
>
>
> Kristen Kaasbjerg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying to use Mayavi for generating eps figures of my 
> > solutions from dolfin, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle 
> > transparent objects.
> > Is there anyone with some Mayavi experience that could help me out 
> > here ?
> > Alternatively, are there any other nice packages out there for 3D 
> > plotting?
> >
> >
> > Kristen
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