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Sounds like you want ggobi or Rggobi |
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http://www.ggobi.org/ |
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http://www.ggobi.org/rggobi/ |
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:04:15 -0700 |
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"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Matías Graña wrote: |
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> > Hi; I'm doing some easy 3D plotting these days and I've come to this |
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> > situation. I just need to plot a few dots in 3D-space. I've been using |
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> > gnuplot for this, as it allows to rotate the picture with the mouse, |
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> > giving a good impression of where the dots actually are. |
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> > So far so good, but now I want it to interact with the python code I use |
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> > to compute the position of the dots. There's gnuplot-py for this, but it |
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> > seems to have the problem that once it launches a window, gnuplot does |
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> > not listen to mouse clickings on it. So I can tell my python program to |
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> > draw the dots, but then I can't rotate them as I could within a gnuplot |
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> > session. |
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> > |
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> > So, I'm looking to either |
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> > a) a way to have an interaction between gnuplot and python, or |
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> > b) another program/library that can be launched from python and able to |
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> > plot 3D dots and rotate them with the mouse. |
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> > Any insight or advice is welcome. |
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> > Thanks, |
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> > Matías |
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> There are oodles of scientific interfaces to Python. I'm guessing there |
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> is at least one that will do this. I'm not a Pythonista, however, I'm a |
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> Rubyist, so I can't give you any names, or tell you whether what you |
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> want to do is in Portage or not. One you might want to check is Sage |
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> (http://sagemath.org/). Another is StatPy |
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> (http://www.astro.cornell.edu/staff/loredo/statpy/) |
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> However, this is a very common mode of interaction in exploratory data |
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> analysis, and just about every statistics package out there can do this. |
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> xlisp-stat used to be in Portage, but it's in Lisp. And R is in Portage |
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> for sure and is what *I* use to do this sort of thing. If you don't mind |
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> learning another language, I'd recommend R. |
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> There is supposedly an R-Python interface available, but since I don't |
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> know Python, I've never bothered to check it out. If you want to go this |
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> way, do a Google search for "RSPython". |
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