Re: [Matplotlib-users] Dropped mplot3d support? Any alternative?!

On mercredi 08 octobre 2008, John [H2O] wrote:
> Is there an alternative set up in matplotlib 0.98? I've just finished the
> migration and porting my code so that basemap will work properly! Also, I
> would really prefer not to use too many packages as it becomes difficult to
> switch syntax constantly and deal with keeping the installations across
> multiple machines up to date.

  Use mayavi.mlab. See the documentation for mlab at:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab.html

  The 3D already looked great with mayavi, but with the (relatively) new mlab 
module, it's _really_ easy to use !

  More links (but the one above should convince you).

https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/MayaVi
https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Mayavi/Gallery	<= screenshots
http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/

  Only possible difficulty is that it's still not readily packaged for all 
linux distributions - I picked the development version (pre-3.0 ?) from svn 
using instructions from:
https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Build/ETS_3.0.0b1/Py2.5/Generic_Any_Any



(see https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/Install before in case there are 
binaries already available for you).

 and it works very, very well.

  Under windows it's part of the Enthought python distribution.

	Vincent
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