rkn@ORNL-MSR.arpa (Roger E. Stoller 576-7886) (08/11/86)
I am looking for a simple 3-d plotting routine along the lines of 'graph'. Nothing fancy, just a program that will take ordered triples and generate a file suitable for plot. I don't need to be aable to rotate, alter the perspective ... Has anyone written such an item? Thanks ---------------------------------------------------- Roger Stoller, rkn@ornl-msr.arpa, (615) 576-7886 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 37830 ----------------------------------------------------
gwyn@brl-sem.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) (08/11/86)
In article <2941@brl-smoke.ARPA> rkn@ORNL-MSR.arpa (Roger E. Stoller 576-7886) writes: >I am looking for a simple 3-d plotting routine along the lines of 'graph'. >Nothing fancy, just a program that will take ordered triples and generate >a file suitable for plot. I don't need to be aable to rotate, alter the >perspective ... Has anyone written such an item? Something puzzles me about this request. "Graph" produces device-independent UNIX PLOT(4) data. UNIX PLOT(4) does not define 3-D graphic primitives, although they have been added at BRL. What would your 3-D equivalent of "graph" DO without 3-D primitives? How would you view them if you had them? (At BRL, we have one 3-D PLOT(4) device, and I'm planning on producing a DMD 3-D interactive viewer "soon".)
jon@amdahl.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) (08/12/86)
In article <410@brl-sem.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-sem.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: > In article <2941@brl-smoke.ARPA> rkn@ORNL-MSR.arpa (Roger E. Stoller 576-7886) writes: > >I am looking for a simple 3-d plotting routine along the lines of 'graph'. > >Nothing fancy, just a program that will take ordered triples and generate > >a file suitable for plot. I don't need to be aable to rotate, alter the > >perspective ... Has anyone written such an item? > > Something puzzles me about this request. > "Graph" produces device-independent UNIX PLOT(4) data. > UNIX PLOT(4) does not define 3-D graphic primitives, > although they have been added at BRL. > > What would your 3-D equivalent of "graph" DO without > 3-D primitives? How would you view them if you had them? > (At BRL, we have one 3-D PLOT(4) device, and I'm planning > on producing a DMD 3-D interactive viewer "soon".) Presumably one could specify the viewing parameters, or use a default set chosen from the data, and the 3-d graph program would then generate a 2-d projection for feeding to conventional plot filters. -- Jon Leech (...seismo!amdahl!jon) UTS Products / Amdahl Corporation __@/