[SciPy-User] Advise for numerical programming content (New python user)

[Sachin Kumar Sharma]

Thanks Gale,

Appreciate your reply.

Best regards

Sachin

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Sachin Kumar Sharma
Senior Geomodeler - Samarang Project (IPM)

-----Original Message-----
From: scipy-user-bounces at scipy.org [mailto:scipy-user-bounces at scipy.org] On Behalf Of Gael Varoquaux
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 2:43 PM
To: SciPy Users List
Subject: Re: [SciPy-User] Advise for numerical programming content (New python user)

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 02:48:56AM +0000, Sachin Kumar Sharma wrote:
>    I am new to python and I am currently evaluating options and
>    functionalities of numerical programming and related 2d and  3d graphic
>    outputs with python.

2D data:

  * If you want to do publication-quality figures of scientific data, 
    matplotlib is your best friend:
    http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
    Try it, get used to it, it's awesome.

  * If you want to do interactive visualization and exploration of your
    data, Chaco will be what you want. A bit of a learning curve but
    really great at playing with data.
    http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/

3D data:

  * If you have simple data, both in terms of volume and in terms of how
    you want to represent it, matplotlib has a nice small set of 3D
    plotting features
    http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/index.html

  * If you have biggish data (anything real life), or if you want to slice 
    the data interactively and explore it, Mayavi is your friend.
    http://code.enthought.com/projects/mayavi/docs/development/html/mayavi/mlab.html
    As you seem to be in geophysics, I suspect that Mayavi will be your tool
    of choice for 3D.

My 2 cents,

Gael
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