[vtkusers] MATLAB's surf equivalent in VTK

[Isaiah Norton]

MayaVi provied a nice matlab-like 3d plotting kit for Python called "mlab".
It uses Python-wrapped VTK and works directly with NumPy arrays.

http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/mlab_helper_functions.html#surf
http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/MayaVi/Surf

Some neat related examples here:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/examples.html

-Isaiah


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David, will have alook at this.
>
> Jothy
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Jothy <jothybasu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I would like to create a surface plot of 3 variable (x,y,z). There are
>> > functions to do this in MATLAB, but I wonder is there any classes in VTK
>> to
>> > do that?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Jothy
>>
>> If you have f(x,y) = z, (which I think is what surf handles) you can
>> use this technique:
>> http://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Examples/Cxx/Meshes/ElevationFilter
>>
>> David
>>
>
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