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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 03:06:24PM +0100, Kristen Kaasbjerg wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> in fact MayaVi2 turned out to do the job pretty good after all.
> It saves figures with transparent objects directly to pdf/eps format 
> (just remember to turn off compression and turn on "Write3d props as 
> raster").
> Example:
> http://www.fys.ku.dk/~cosby/Figures/Gatepotential.pdf
> 
> I had the 3ddesk running in the background first time I used it, and 
> that might have screwed up things a bit. But after killing that 
> everything ran smoothly.
> 
> MayaVi2 can be installed pretty easily using eggs. Just type:
> 
> sudo easy_install --prefix /usr/local -f http://code.enthought.com/enstaller/eggs/debian/etch/unstable enthought.mayavi
> 
> or have a look at:
> https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/InstallWithEggs
> 
> Kristen

Nice.

As always, feel free to add this to the gallery:

  http://www.fenics.org/wiki/Gallery

-- 
Anders


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> Bartosz Sawicki wrote:
> > Garth N. Wells:
> >> Kristen Kaasbjerg wrote:
> >>> I tried it out already, but didn't manage to save figures with 
> >>> transparent objects to eps format.
> >>>
> >>
> >> As far as I know, EPS does not support transparency.
> >
> > EPS support transparency, but only for vector graphics.
> > Vector graphics is good solution for 2D figures, in 3D, raster figures 
> > are more often used.
> >
> > My advice is similar to the one from Anders. Arrange view in your 
> > visualization software (eg. Paraview). Take a screenshot. Use Gimp to 
> > crop figure, you can also add transparency if you need it. Save in PNG.
> >
> > regrd.
> > BArtosz
> >
> >>
> >> Garth
> >>
> >>> Kristen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Matthew Knepley wrote:
> >>>> 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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