3D package in R
-----Message d'origine----- De : ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] Envoye : Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:30 PM A : Yves Gauvreau Cc : Jonathan Baron; E97249 at edu.essec.fr; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Objet : RE: [R] 3D package in R On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Yves Gauvreau wrote:
Hi, I would agree with Jonathan Baron if Xgobi wasn't such a fuss
to use under
Windows. For all practical purposes it's not very useful at least under Windows. I think a 3D visualization package for R is a very good idea as
I would disagree: for me with my XServer/graphics card it works reliably and transparently as just another window, just quite a bit slower than under Linux on the same machine,
These are actually the reasons why I said Xgobi is not very practical to use under Windows. I should have pointed out my concerns about speed and the need for special hardware and/or software. At this time I have a lowly Intel P166 and if I use Xgobi and a software based XServer it behave just like a 486 40~66 mhz. You may call this practical if that's your pleasure. But for those of us with low end PC's it becomes a big bit to slow for our pleasure. Beside that I don't have any grudge whatsoever against Xgobi per say. Regards. Yves Gauvreau B.E.F.P. Universite du Quebec a Montreal cyg at sympatico.ca
GGobi promises to be much easier to use under Windows (it uses GTK+ and GIMP shows that works well as a native Windows application), and easier to integrate with R. When I looked (www.ggobi.org) the Windows binaries were not there, and when I tried it out on Linux it seemed to have a lot of missing functionality (either it said so or nothing happened). But the promise is there. My own view is that GTK+ looks dreadful everywhere, but that is a matter of taste.
long as it can be used like any other package on all supported
platforms. I
went to have a look at Blender and I think I understand your
idea. If I can
humbly suggest using an existing and portable library in a
manner similar to
how the core developers have used say Linpack or other similar
libraries. A
common denominator could be OpenGL as it is available for most platform AFAIK.
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