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Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave: 0.3.0


From: Søren Hauberg
Subject: Re: Yet Another Plotting System for Octave: 0.3.0
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:42:56 +0200
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Shai Ayal skrev:
This is basically what is used by all OpenGL systems -- octplot &
jhandles included. It is a highly non-trivial taks to "render" 3D
OpenGL in postscript, and gl2ps is the best tool to do it. All the
problems actually stem from OpenGL, not the conversion to ps. As I
noted elsewhere, using OpenGL & gl2ps will give OK results, but not
100% professional -- e.g. lines will not always join nicely, and some
numerical glitches may be noticeable -- OpenGL uses no more than
floats to do all it's calculations. This is most noticeable in 2D
plots, less so in 3D plots.
However, all that being said, the ps results are quite nice, and are
truely resolution independant vector graphics.
I'm curious: do you believe that gl2ps provides good enough output to be used as the only way to create postscript output in Octave in some distant future? Or can it only be a temporary solution for the GL based projects?

Søren


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