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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:45:44PM +0100, Kristen Kaasbjerg wrote:
> So what do people in general do when they want to produce nice 3D plots ?
> 
> Kristen

Here's what I do (which is obviously not optimal):

  1. Make sure I sit on a computer with a large screen (in terms of pixels)
  2. Make the plot in paraview and maximize the window
  3. Take a screenshot (using the Ubuntu screenshot utility)
  4. Open in GIMP, crop the image and save to eps

:-)

The .eps will be a bitmap but with a lot of pixels so it looks ok.

Number 3 is needed since my paraview crashes when I try to export the
figure.

-- 
Anders


> 
> 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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