Re: DrGenius does 3d plotting!!!

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:

> 
> This looks very good Aaron!  I guess you plan to get the functions
> from a GEL buffer or directly from a console.  So from the console we
> can do something like "plot f(x)" as in GnuPlot.

The console will definately be an option, but I haven't decided where to
get the functions from from in the pure-GUI mode. I want to make a
descision that makes it very user-friendly.

> On IRC you mention it will be nice to have icon for the : New Figurre,
> New Canvas (2D/3D plotting), New Calculator, New GEL file.
> 
> I think Frédéric can provide that, may be not soon as he will soon
> very important exam. (Fréd I cross post the message to you as I'm not
> sure you are on the ml)

Yes, these icons would be cool. Also I will eventually need 64x64 icons
for a 2d plot and a 3d plot icons on the tool palette, right now I am
using red diamonds as placeholders.

> Also, I think a release quite very soon, as now, will be a good idea,
> we have quite a lot of interestings things to show there.

I hope you didn't include the canvas stuff! I just started working on it.

> Well i will try to make a release tonight, but autoconf/automake
> really become paintfull.
> 
> Hilaire
> 
> 
> 
>  > I have successfully hacked dr-genius to do 3d-plotting on a
>  > gnome-canvas.  Screenshot at
>  > http://vitelus.com/aaronl/dr-genius-3d.jpg (the graph in the
>  > picture looks lousy but it looks great on my screen - lousy screen
>  > capture or jpeg compression i guess).
>  > 
>  > Anyway, i am eager to commit the code that makes this work. Apply
>  > the first canvas diff i sent and I will send you a diff on that, or
>  > even better when miguel finally creates a cvs account for me i can
>  > finally commit to the canvas code without bothering you.
>  > 
>  > Thanks, Aaron
> 
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