[SciPy-User] creating a 3D surface plot from collected data

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:28:25PM -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
> No, this is not true. Delaunay2D ignores the Z coordinate and returns
> the 2D Delaunay triangulation of just the X,Y coordinates. When you
> have an z=f(x,y) functional relationship, this usually does what you
> want. It does not solve Rob's problem or that of the OP.

>   http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.4/html/a00404.html

Wow, I am bluffed. I was pretty sure of the contrary and didn't check.

> Instead, they need the SurfaceReconstructionFilter:

>   http://www.vtk.org/doc/release/5.4/html/a01651.html

Rob and David, you can use it by replacing the call to
mlab.pipeline.delaunay2d by a call to:

mlab.pipeline.user_defined(obj, filter='SurfaceReconstructionFilter'),

as in the following example:
http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/auto/example_image_cursor_filter.html

Thanks for the details, Robert.

Gaël