Re: basic implementation for isosurface, isocolors, isonormals

[David Bateman]

Martin Helm wrote:
> > Sorry for the late followup.
> > I changed the iso* functions and the helper functions a little bit
> > (avoiding assignments of the form [] = [], which can lead to trouble
> > otherwise) and tried to adjust the style to be more compliant with what I
> > can see in the contribution section of the octave manual. I am pretty sure
> > that there are further changes to the style to be done.
> > The patches include the changes to plot/Makefile.in and add the new
> > functions isosurface, isocolors, isonormals, __interp_cube__ and
> > __marching_cube__. Thanks to Thomas Treichl who helps with the
> > documentation and examples for the functions.
> > I made the patch from scratch not against your patch. I do not know if this
> > is ok or not.
> > Please tell me how to proceede in the correct way.
> >     
Hey its your code, yours get precedence over my version.

> > With the new __go_draw_axes__ (gnuplot backend) I first ran into trouble
> > because I use gnuplot 4.3 and this has the transparency feature which
> > screws up the commands sent to gnuplot.
> > With 4.2 it works with some side effects and without coloring
> > (FaceVertexCData). It seems to me that something like
> > unset hidden3d
> > set pm3d
> > set pm3d depthorder hidden3d <linestyle> explicit
> > is neccessary to avoid some strange visual behavior (the patch is opaque
> > but the axes are visible even if they should be hidden by the patch) the
> > hidden3d (not the pm3d hidden3d) setting seems to be responsible for that.
> > Hope I will find time over the weekend to dive deeper into it and
> > understand the details.
> >     
Sigh, I don't really have much time to look at this, but its clear that 
we can't include this code till the gnuplot backend works with it

D.


> > - mh
> >     
>
> I forgot the changesets for the empty spaces before the calling parentheses.
>
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