[SciPy-dev] scipy graphics wiki/website?

[Fernando Perez]

On 3 May 2002 clee at spiralis.merseine.nu wrote:

> Periodically, I've seen mails go by on the list from people who say they are
> either interested in or working on extending the graphics capabilities of
> scipy.  Is there a central site for pooling  efforts and information on scipy
> graphics?
> 
> Is the wiki the place to set something up?  I'm interested in helping with the
> effort with a web page or two reviewing what's available for python graphics,
> and an RFC/proposal for the underlying image model.

Great! Right now all I can do is sideline-cheer, but I think it's great. I 
know the 'core' scipy team is very busy with the architecture right now, and 
there's only so much they can do. But having a central place to reference and 
discuss the issues is a good start. Here's a snippet from an old discussion on 
this which sort of summarizes my view on this:

<quote>
I don't mind that VTK is a complex toolkit: for something to scale well to 
really serious tasks, it better be. Otherwise it will crack open beyond a 
certain point. I think the challenge is writing a tool that:

1) can be easily used from the interactive python command line for 'basic' 2d 
and 3d plotting.

2) has itself a gui for fine tuning of things.

3) is scriptable from python with access to the mid and low-level routines.
</quote>

Cheers,

f