Re: octave - vtk

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2010/11/4 Judd Storrs <address@hidden>:

> Maybe rather than write our own lexers and parsers another approach
> would be to get CableSWIG to work with octave.

This sounds like a partial rewrite of Octaviz? What Octaviz does is
wrap VTK for Octave and then provides a few m-files using that
wrapping. It already has lexers and parsers written, presumably in an
old style for wrapping VTK. Are you describing a newer way to wrap
VTK? I generally distrust starting from scratch than patching old
code. The latter is almost always a better strategy for success.

Frankly, I'm not sure this is valuable at all. While VTK is a nice
visualisation system, my main interest in Octaviz at the time was that
gnuplot produces ugly and slow 3d graphics. Now that the fltk backend
is fairly mature, I don't have this complaint. I think I'd rather look
into implementing the Matlab lighting command than keep working with
Octaviz.

- Jordi G. H.