[vtkusers] Re: is VTK good for 3D charting?

[ahgu]

Thanks Goodwin,

Since I don't know anything about TK/TCL, I want to stick with visual c++
v6. Is there some sample visual c++ v6 project somewhere that can help me
get started?

thanks
Andrew


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goodwin Lawlor" <goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.vtk.user
To: "ahgu" <ahgu at ahgu.homeunix.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: is VTK good for 3D charting?


> ahgu wrote:
> > is VTK good for 3D charting? Does it have functions that support 3D
> > plotting?
> > Where can I find examples with visual c++?
> > thanks
> > Andrew
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> If you're talking about animating 2d charts have a look at these tcl
> examples:
> /Hybrid/Testing/Tcl/xyPlot.tcl
> /Hybrid/Testing/Tcl/xyPlot2.tcl
> /Hybrid/Testing/Tcl/xyPlot3.tcl
> /Hybrid/Testing/Tcl/xyPlot4.tcl
>
> And this C++ example:
> /Widgets/Testing/Cxx/TestSplineWidget.cxx
>
>
> Basically, vtkXYPlotActor is the class you want...
>
> If you're talking about plotting your 3D data in 3D space have a look at
> vtkGlyph3D for a 3D scatter plot, and vtkPolyLine or vtkCardinalSpline
> for a line plot.
>
> The also an example of plotting financial data here:
> /Examples/Modelling/Cxx/finance.cxx
>
> hth
>
>
>
> hth
>
> Goodwin
>
>