[vtkusers] Recommended way to create a 2D scatter plot

Darshan Pai darshanpai at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 22:39:08 EDT 2010


Hey all ,

Isnt GNU R also be easy making outputs such as this . THough i havent tried
this plugin but maybe a good place to look

darshan

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Ben Medina <ben.medina at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple features are critical:
> - Ability to color scatter points based on the values from another array.
> - Ability to size scatter points based on the values from another array.
>
> Is this possible (or planned) in the VTK Charts API?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ben Medina <ben.medina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excellent. Marcus, please let me know when you've committed the test
> > so I can have a look.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> > <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com<daviddoria%2Bvtk at gmail.com>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Ben Medina <ben.medina at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > Great! I'm a bit confused about why one uses a PolyDataMapper and
> >>> > Actor, rather than a PolyDataMapper2D and Actor2D as I had been
> doing.
> >>> >
> >>> > Now is there any way to add 2D axes to the plot?
> >>> >
> >>> > Going forward, is this still the preferred way of creating 2D scatter
> >>> > plots, or will the charts API take over?
> >>> >
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > Ben
> >>>
> >>> If you want an actual scatter plot with axes you should definitely use
> >>> the Charts API that Marcus has been developing. He said he will be
> >>> adding a scatter plot example to src/VTK/Charts/Testing/Cxx very soon.
> >>>
> >> I have an example test locally, I will try to get it committed today so
> that
> >> you can take a look. The 2D chart stuff in VTK is the preferred way to
> >> create scatter plots going forward, more features will be added but
> basic
> >> scatter plots are already possible.
> >> Marcus
> >> --
> >> Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
> >> R&D Engineer, Kitware Inc.
> >> (518) 881-4937
> >
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