Repost: Re: Scientific Plotting?

[Bryan VanDeVen]

mhuster at hotmail.com wrote:

> I am also trying to find an adequate *object* based plotting package. I
> am writing some signal processing software and want to code plotting
> into the classes I am defining.
> 
> Some requirements:
> 1) Postscript output (for inclusion in high quality Word & Powerpoint
> documents) GIF, JPG, etc just do not have the resolution. They default
> to 72 dpi rendering. You can overcome this on Linux using Image Magick's
> convert -dens 300. The resulting files are large.
> 
> 2) Object oriented
> 3) Images

I don't think it is quite what you are looking for, but you might check
out VTK at http://www.kitware.com/vtk.html  It's main focus is high
quality 3D data visualization but it contains an image pipeline as
well.  The main problem for you might be the PostScript support (I think
it is there but I am not sure how complete)  On the other hand, it does
build python bindings (and tcl bindings too) for itself when you build
it, which is nice.

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Bryan Van de Ven
Applied Research Labs
University of Texas, Austin