I recommend Mayavi2, which has all the Paraview functionality
but is open source and well supported. It is available through
Debian packages and Python eggs.
Matt
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Kristen Kaasbjerg <cosby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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