Re: offscreen rendering with gl-render - pls advice

[Ben Abbott]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:33 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> man, 18 01 2010 kl. 12:28 +0200, skrev Shai Ayal:
>>        (2) I'm becoming a fan of pgf/tikz, which would require a
>>        latex install to render to ps/pdf/etc.
>> 
>>               http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/reviews/
>> 
>> Looks nice, but apart from the LaTeX run-time requirement, someone
>> needs to code it (It is a completely new backend not based on
>> gl-render/OpenGL), not a small task.
> 
> I did a little work on this some time ago (just for my own needs). For
> 2D stuff you can get quite far with fairly little effort. 3D stuff seems
> more complicated. I'm attaching some code that allows you to save basic
> stuff using tikz.
> 
> Søren
> 
> <print_tikz.m>

Søren, have you looked at matlab2tikz? .. I've used it with Matlab, but haven't 
looked at the code in detail. It is still lacking 3D but produces nice 2D plots.

The license looks close to GPL, If it is useful, perhaps the author would agree 
to a change.

Ben