Plotting points to screen

Jason jason at jasonmhirst.co.uk
Mon Sep 26 15:45:56 EDT 2005


jay graves wrote:
> I've used both pygame and PIL for this in the past.  (i'm plotting a
> non-standard 3d data format from a in-house app)
> Pygame was nice because I put a key handler in to reload the file and
> do a little zooming/panning and when I wanted to save a particular plot
> I would just use a screen capture program.
> Then I upgraded my harddrive and didn't re-install PyGame. The next
> time I had to plot some data, I tweaked my script to use PIL.  I ended
> up liking this solution better.  I could easily create large images
> (bigger than physical screen which was a limiting factor in PyGame) and
> used a regular image viewer to pan and shrink/zoom.  I had the drawing
> portions of my script well separated from the data parsing and
> manipulation so tweaking the script was simple.
> 
> YMMV, but PIL was the best way for me.
> 
> ...
> jay graves
> 
Thanks Jay.

One question, that's twice in as many days that someone has said "YMMV".

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